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- Title
Ecological and Social Awareness in Place-Based Stories.
- Authors
Gladwin, Derek
- Abstract
Through institutional and public forms of environmental literacy, the literary focused practice of ecocriticism could be considered a critical, creative, and pedagogical tool for educating people about environmental issues, while at the same time promoting sustainable practices for future societies. Scholars, artists, educators, and activists in environmental studies have turned to the concept of place as a critical framework, following a longer tradition in geographical theory and practice, to bring human communities back to responsible and sustainable relationships with the environment. understanding one's relationship to place promotes greater ecological awareness because of our emotional and social investments to place. one way to achieve this is through place-based stories. the attention to place continues to be evident in contemporary short stories in Ireland. the short stories surveyed in this article--by Anne enright, Claire Keegan, and Kevin barry--locate place as the dominant subject and theme, underpinning other ecological concerns related to locally raised "slow food," sexual justice and reproduction, and disaster narratives associated with climate change. these stories pinpoint a range of environmental tensions while they also subtly educate readers about the social repercussions associated with them.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL literacy; ECOCRITICISM; ENVIRONMENTAL literature; IRISH short stories; ENRIGHT, Anne, 1962-; KEEGAN, Claire; BARRY, Kevin, 1969-; IRISH literature
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2019, Vol 42, p138
- ISSN
0703-1459
- Publication type
Article