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- Title
Spectral Environmentalisms: National Politics and Gothic Ecologies in Silent Spring, Surfacing, and Salt Fish Girl.
- Authors
Lousley, Cheryl
- Abstract
The article examines works of ecological Bildungsroman allegorizing a collective politics in the image of their haunted and polluted bodies. It discusses the similar use of Gothic imagery to articulate ecology as a politics of public visibility and collective action in "Spectral Nationality," by Pheng Cheah, "Surfacing," by Margaret Atwood, and "Silent Spring," by Rachel Carson. It also describes Larissa Lai's Gothic invocation of the tropes of life and death in "Salt Fish Girl."
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL literature; GOTHIC fiction (Literary genre); BILDUNGSROMANS; SPECTRAL Nationality: Passages of Freedom From Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (Book); SURFACING (Book : Atwood); SILENT Spring (Book : Carson); SALT Fish Girl: A Novel, The (Book); PHENG Cheah
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 2, p412
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/isle/isy039