Strange natures : futurity, empathy, and the queer ecological imagination /

Investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Seymour, Nicole (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Homosexuality > Philosophy. Human ecology > Philosophy. Philosophy of nature. Ecocriticism. Environmentalism in literature. Queer theory. Homosexualité > Philosophie. Écologie humaine > Philosophie. Écologie humaine > Étude et enseignement. Philosophie de la nature. Human ecology > Study and teaching. Homosexualität Queer-Theorie Ecocriticism

Table of Contents:

Introduction : locating queer ecologies
Post-transsexual pastoral : environmental ethics in the contemporary transgender novel
"It's just not turning up" : AIDS, cinematic vision, and environmental justice in Todd Haynes's Safe
"Ranch stiffs" and "beach cowboys" in the shrinking public sphere : sexual domestication in Brokeback mountain and Surf party
Attack of the queer atomic mutants : the ironic environmentalism of Shelley Jackson's Half life
Conclusion : the futures of queer ecology.