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Grounding Southern Ecocriticism

Grounding Southern Ecocriticism Grounding Southern Ecocriticism by Bart H. Welling Clear- Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature. By Christopher Rieger. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2009. 202 pp. $39.75 cloth. Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World. By James L. Peacock. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2010. 328 pp. $22.95 paper. What might the future of southern ecocriticism look like? Although neither of them tackles this question directly, and one of them doesn't bill itself as a work of ecocriticism at all, two studies from the last few years -- or, rather, the unacknowledged intersections, gaps, and frictions between the two -- suggest that a variety of ecocriticism grounded in the literatures, cultures, and places of the U.S. South has some vibrant years ahead of it. First, though, it is worth asking where Christopher Rieger and James L. Peacock's books achieve, and where they stop short of achieving, this kind of grounding. As a clearly written and carefully researched work of (mostly) secondwave ecocriticism, Rieger's Clear- Cutting Eden lays a solid foundation for future ecocritical approaches to southern authors, particularly the main subjects of the study: Erskine Caldwell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, and William http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Grounding Southern Ecocriticism

Welling, Bart H.
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 45 (1) – Jul 19, 2012
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Grounding Southern Ecocriticism by Bart H. Welling Clear- Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature. By Christopher Rieger. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2009. 202 pp. $39.75 cloth. Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World. By James L. Peacock. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2010. 328 pp. $22.95 paper. What might the future of southern ecocriticism look like? Although neither of them tackles this question directly, and one of them doesn't bill itself as a work of ecocriticism at all, two studies from the last few years -- or, rather, the unacknowledged intersections, gaps, and frictions between the two -- suggest that a variety of ecocriticism grounded in the literatures, cultures, and places of the U.S. South has some vibrant years ahead of it. First, though, it is worth asking where Christopher Rieger and James L. Peacock's books achieve, and where they stop short of achieving, this kind of grounding. As a clearly written and carefully researched work of (mostly) secondwave ecocriticism, Rieger's Clear- Cutting Eden lays a solid foundation for future ecocritical approaches to southern authors, particularly the main subjects of the study: Erskine Caldwell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, and William

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