Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French

Douglas Boudreau is associate professor of French at Mercyhurst University.Marnie Sullivan is assistant professor of English at Mercyhurst University.

• IntroductionDouglas L. Boudreau and Marnie M. Sullivan Chapter 1: French Ecological Fiction in the ClassroomRoland Racevskis Chapter 2: George Sand’s réalisme vert: Towards an Ecocritical Reading of Le meunier d’AngibaultAnnie K. Smart Chapter 3: The Deep Ecology of “Evil:” Baudelaire and HolismJames WhitlarkChapter 4: Acadia as Habitat: Environment and Identity in the Work of Antonine MailletDouglas L. Boudreau Chapter 5 : Ecocritical Pedagogy for Teaching Mariama Bâ’s Une si longue lettre and Le Chant EcarlateMarnie M. SullivanChapter 6: An Ecological Identity: Poetics, Nature, and Identity in L’esclave vieil homme et le molosseNathan GermainChapter 7: Waste Treatment: Resource Recovery in The Gleaners and I and La ClôtureLaura Call Chapter 8: An Eco-critical Reading of J.-C. Rufin’s Le Parfum d’AdamGilles Mossière AfterwordDouglas L. Boudreau and Marnie M. Sullivan About the ContributorsIndex

Boudreau and Sullivan, hearkening to Stephanie Posthumus as the foremost proponent of French ecocriticism, highlight ‘the importance of the language of expression in writing about nature’. The editors’ meditations on treating works as French or francophone draw attention to the value of inclusivity and broadened thinking for a volume that takes inspiration from French interest in inhabited environments. . . .The volume, which is enhanced by the granularity of its nine-page index, ultimately succeeds in offering assorted food for thought about utilizing ecocriticism to enrich our understanding of connections between cultural production and ecological conditions in diverse environments.