BOOK: BRITTA MARIA COLLIGS, MATERIAL ECOCRITICISM AND SYLVAN AGENCY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION: THE FORESTS OF THE WORLD, LEXINGTON BOOKS, 2023, 218 P.
BOOK: BRITTA MARIA COLLIGS, MATERIAL ECOCRITICISM AND SYLVAN AGENCY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION: THE FORESTS OF THE WORLD, LEXINGTON BOOKS, 2023, 218 P.

Summary/Abstract: Our understanding of ecocritical issues often tends to revolve around the preservation of various ecosystems affected by disasters such as pollution or climate change—and for good reason. In many aspects, papers have shown that human intervention has been a double-sided sword in the ecological development of the world, as conservation efforts remain high in the face of decades of sylvan exploitation at the hands of the Northern hemisphere, is what Britta Marie Colligs points out in her study, Material Ecocriticism and Sylvan Agency in Speculative Fiction. By taking a look at the literature of the past century, Colligs manages to reconfigure our understanding of ecocriticism not from an Anthropocene perspective as has often been the case, but rather by proposing that we dispel portrayals of the environment as an object to be saved, but rather as an entity that expresses its own agency.

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