Ecopoetics of War

Sylvain Belluc is Senior Lecturer in British History and Literature at Nîmes University and Researcher at Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University, France.Isabelle Brasme is Professor of British Literature at the University of Burgundy, France.Guillaume Tanguy is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University, France.

• IntroductionSylvain Belluc, Isabelle Brasme, and Guillaume TanguyPART IDistributive Agency, Shared Vulnerability, and Decomposition 1 Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War Stories and Essays: The Bitterness of a “Cynic” or the Insight of a Neo-Materialist?Marie-Odile Salati2 Between Safety and Conflict: War and Nature in a Few Poems of the First World WarLaure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt3 Fantasized Muddy Landscapes: William Faulkner’s World War IFrédérique SpillPART IIResilience, Recomposition, and Reconsideration 4 Plotting the Blitzscape: from Representation to Composition in Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950)Clémence Laburthe-Tolra5 Knocking on Delville Wood: The Destruction of Natural Elements During World War I and The Construction of a South African MemoryGilles Teulié6 “A Prophetic Vision of the Past:” The Nature of War in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Biblique des Derniers Gestes (2002)Carine Mardorossian7 The Dissenting Ecology of War Writing: Capitalocene and Ecocide in the Iraq War Fiction of Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Roy ScrantonJulien BrugeronPART IIITechnopoetics8 The Corpse in the Garden: War and Nature in American Literature, from Walt Whitman to James Ellroy Benoît Tadié9 Knights on Wheels: Chivalry and Horsepower in the American Ambulance CorpsDaniel Bowman10 Submarine Optics in Marianne Moore and Elizabeth BishopRachel Murray