Publications

Publications

Excellente nouvelle: l’ouvrage collectif Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth, dirigé par Béné Meillon et soumis pour publication auprès de Rowman & Littlefield, chez Lexington Press, vient d’être accepté pour une publication en 2020 dans leur collection spécialisée “Ecocritical Theory and Practise”: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice.

En avant-première, en voici la Table de Matières:

Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth

Edited by Bénédicte Meillon

Table of Contents

Foreword “Ecopoetics at the Tipping Point,” by Joni Adamson, Arizona State University, USA.

Introduction “What Matters Sings: Ecopoetics of Reenchantment,” by Bénédicte Meillon, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France.

1-Theorizing ecopoetics of (re)enchantment

“Necessary Wonder: Promises and Pitfalls of Enchantment” by Charles Holdefer, University of Poitiers, France.

“’I turn homeward, wondering’: Reasons for Enchantment’’ by Yves-Charles Grandjeat, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, France.

“Everyone is Absorbed: Enchanting Substance in VanderMeer’s Southern Reach” by Randall Roorda, University of Kentucky, USA.

“Nature’s Speech and Storytelling: The Voice of Wisdom in the Non-Human” by Françoise Besson, University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France.

“ ‘A place grown intense and holy’:  Dwelling in the Enchanted World of Words” by Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves, University of Lisbon, and UTAD (University of Trás-os-montes e Alto Douro), Portugal.

2- Dwellings of enchantment in literatures of place, old and new

 “Wonder, Enchantment, and The New Nature Writing” by Joshua Mabie, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, USA.

 “Eco-memoir, Belonging, and the Ecopoetics of Settler Colonial Enchantment” by Tom Lynch, Professor at the University of Nebraska, USA.

“Aesthetic Choices for the Anthropocene Era in the New American Literature of Place” by Wendy Harding, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France.

3- Of animal elusiveness, death, and wonder: Zoopoetics and the quest for common ground

“Zoopoethics: Literature Challenged by Industrial Livestock Farming” by Anne Simon, CRAL-CNRS/EHESS, France.

“Ron Rash’s Above the Waterfall, or The Square Root of Wonderful” by Frédérique Spill, University of Picardie, Amiens, France.

“A Poetics of Traces in Rick Bass’s Short Stories” by Claire Cazajous-Augé, University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France.

4- Of postcolonial and ecofeminist spellings and spells: when magical realism challenges modern ontology and epistemology

“Conversations with the Living World: Mutual Discovery and Enchantment” by Carmen Flys Junquera, Franklin Institute / Universidad de Alcalà, Spain.

“Writing a Way Home: Liminality, Magical Realism, and the Building of a Biotic Communitas in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and People of the Whale” by Bénédicte Meillon, University of Perpignan, France.

“The Magic Realist Compost in the Anthropocene: Improbable Assemblages in Canadian and Australian Fiction” by Jessica Maufort, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.

 “Learning to live in the Anthropocene: Orality as Recycling in Contemporary Latin American Indigenous Poetry” by Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.

“Shadows of Enchantment in Indian Forest Fiction: Mahasweta Devi’s “The Hunt” and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey” by Alan Johnson, Idaho State University, USA.

“Anna Livia’s Anthropocene Ecopoetics” by Rachel Nisbet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

 “Theodore Roszak’s Glade in The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein: An Ecofeminist Dwelling of Emancipation” by Noémie Moutel, Université de Caen, France.

5- Writers’ Corner: An essay by Chickasaw writer and poet Linda Hogan

“Ways of the Cranes,” by Linda Hogan

Publication en Français

Pour rappel, une première publication en français a eu lieu suite au colloque de juin 2016 et à la journée d’études de mai 2017, qui rassemble dans un numéro spécial de la revue internationale Crossways Journal, une sélection étroite d’articles retravaillés. Ce volume a été codirigé par Bénédicte Meillon et Margot Lauwers et s’intitule Lieux d’enchantement: approches écocritiques et écopoét(h)iques des liens entre humains et non-humains. D’abord sélectionnés et évalués par le codirectrices, les articles retravaillés ont ensuite été évalués en double aveugle par le comité de relecture de la revue. Vous trouverez la table des matières et la revue en accès libre et gratuit: https://crossways.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/crossways/issue/view/263

Enfin, un troisième volume, en anglais, verra bientôt le jour. Il est dirigé par Caroline Durand-Rous et Margot Lauwers.

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