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H is for Hypocrite: reading 'New Nature Writing' through the lens of vegan theory
| العنوان: | H is for Hypocrite: reading 'New Nature Writing' through the lens of vegan theory |
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| المؤلفون: | Lockwood, Alex |
| المساهمون: | Wright, Laura |
| بيانات النشر: | University of Nevada Press |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | University of Sunderland: SUnderland REpository (SURE) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, Media and Cultural Studies |
| الوصف: | I’m interested in asking what nature writing feels like when we read it through the lens of vegan theory. I argue there is a lack of attention given to the ways in which contemporary creative non-fiction nature writing fails the nonhuman body; and that this failure (in the text, and our criticism) undermines the often explicit pro-environmental messages of the texts. Such a failure can be identified by reading/writing environmental or nature texts through a vegan lens. This essay will then explore how vegan studies furthers ecocritical studies, as well as be of use to ‘nature writers’ in deepening the impact of their work. My essay provides readings of two contemporary nature narratives: Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk and Charles Foster’s Being a Beast. Both have been praised for their quality of writing and embodied engagement with the nonhuman; both pronounce a need to steward our environmental commons better. And yet both fail to address the structural causes of the devastation to nonhuman bodies that they argue pro-environmental behaviours will protect. H is for Hawk retells the story of Macdonald’s training of a Goshawk, Mabel, intermingled with the death of her father. Being a Beast is Foster’s attempt to ‘live like’ five different nonhuman animals. Both books advocate a nostalgic conservancy ethic of intimately ‘knowing nature’ as a means to protect it. However, both Macdonald and Foster fail to engage with contemporary understandings of the role of speciesism in contributing to the damage inflicted on nonhuman nature through, for example, industrial animal agriculture. Macdonald’s book reinforces an outdated paradigm of relating, based on speciesist valuations, and reinforcing systems of exploitation. In perpetuating a logic in which humans express love for some animals but exploit others, she forecloses an opportunity for a radical episteme of affective knowledge, gained though an embodied engagement with other species’ bodies that her writing, on the surface, seems to advocate. I explore this question ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | book part |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/7075/3/H%20is%20for%20Hypocrite%252C%20Lockwood%20Final.pdf; Lockwood, Alex (2019) H is for Hypocrite: reading 'New Nature Writing' through the lens of vegan theory. In: Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism (Cultural Ecologies of Food). University of Nevada Press, Nevada, pp. 205-222. ISBN 9781948908108 |
| الاتاحة: | http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/7075/ http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/7075/3/H%20is%20for%20Hypocrite%252C%20Lockwood%20Final.pdf https://unpress.nevada.edu/books/?isbn=9781948908108 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.84278D41 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
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