Words for a Small Planet

Nanette Norris is Assistant Professor of English at Royal Military College Saint-Jean, where she teaches undergraduate courses in twentieth century literature. Her work has appeared in Images of the Child, ed. Harry Eiss (Bowling Green, 1994), Engaging the Enemy: Canada in the 1940s, ed. Andrew Hiscock and Muriel Chamberlain (Dinefwr Press, 2006), Paris in American Literatures, ed. Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Vamsi Koneru, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), C.S.Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia Casebook, ed. Lance E. Weldy and Michelle Abate, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and The D.H. Lawrence Review, among others. She is the editor of Unionist Popular Culture and Rolls of Honour in the North of Ireland During the First World War: A Collection of Diverse Essays in Popular Culture (Edwin Mellen, 2012). Words for a Small Planet is the fulfillment of a life-long desire to be involved in the study of ecology and ecosystems, and is the outcome of a visit to Saudi Arabia where she saw the Arab Spring in progress, not only across the bridge in Bahrain, but in the homes and hearts of Saudi women: she is proud to bring her editing and collecting skills to the project of giving voice to these and other cultures in the ecosystem called Earth.

• PrefaceAnnie Merrill IngramIntroduction: Ecocritical Spring and Evolutionary DiscourseAndrew Belyea and Nanette NorrisChapter 1: Imaginary Representations and Cultural Performances Of EcocriticismEduardo Barros-GrelaChapter 2: Ecological Narrative or Imperial Exploitation: What’s the “Monster” in Animal Planet’s River Monsters? Christopher JusticeChapter 3: The Representation of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Juan León Mera’s CumandáFrederico A. ChalupaChapter 4: Nature Versus War in Letters from the Front, 1914-1918Sylvie HousielChapter 5: A Passage to India: An Ecocritical ReadingYomna Al-AbdulkareemChapter 6: Nature, Women, and the Ecotext: Self-Discovery in Emily Nasrallah’s Short Stories “The Cocoon” and “The Butterfly”Iman A. HanafyChapter 7: Jerusalem in the poetry of Tamim El-Barghouti and Yehuda AmichaiHessa Al-KahlanChapter 8: Omumu Concept of Begetting: A Pro-Feminist Lesson from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall ApartChinyere OkaforChapter 9: The Legacy of the American War in Vietnam: Tim O’Brien’s “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”Nanette NorrisChapter 10: National Narrative as Wilderness: An Ecocritical Interpretation of Civilización y barbarie in Modern Argentine LiteratureAnne E. HillerChapter 11: Unnatural Appetites and the Case of the Cannibal in Korean CinemaColette BalmainChapter 12: Is ‘Eco’ Enough?: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew’s The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary FictionAndrew Belyea

Words for a Small Planet is an important book that makes connections between traditional forms of eco-criticism and emerging, non-Western settings, texts, and frameworks. Anyone who studies and writes about literature and environment in the 21st Century needs to add this book to their collection!