Ecopoetic Place-Making - (Literary Ecologies) by Judith Rauscher (Paperback)

About the Book

The poets discussed in this book challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries.

Book Synopsis

American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in her study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment and engage in ecopoetic place-making from different perspectives of mobility, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our contemporary world on the move.

About the Author

Judith Rauscher is assistant professor (Juniorprofessorin) of American Literature and Culture at the Universität zu Köln. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in English and American Studies and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Her research focuses on contemporary American poetry, ecocriticism, Mobility Studies, American speculative fiction, and Gender Studies.