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Dwelling on Dwelling: Home and Nature in (Native) American Literature
Lombard, David
2017Representations of Home 2 - Conflict and/or (Be)Longing: Thinking with Stories and Images
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Keywords :
Dwelling; American Nonfiction; Ecocriticism
Abstract :
[en] As Greg Garrard stresses, “[i]nterpretation and critique of the various inflections of dwelling is a major task for ecocritics interested in a predominantly political, rather than moral or spiritual, project of cultural critique that can take us beyond pastoral and nature writing, from the landscapes of leisure to the uneven terrain of real work” (2012). In this paper, I will examine American literary texts dealing with representations of dwelling or “home” as a refuge from the “tensions” or problems caused by modern civilisation and technology. Starting with Thoreau’s Walden (1854), I will focus on the relationships between such refuges, the natural environment, and socio-political critique. Indeed, Thoreau’s work displays a philosophy on nature and dwelling that has influenced other writers to ponder on the negative effects that modern technologies, capitalism and consumerism have had on the human self and, more largely, on our physical environment. Adopting an ecocritical perspective, I will therefore consider Thoreau’s stay in Walden Pond as well as Edward Abbey’s house trailer (Desert Solitaire, 1968), Christopher McCandless’s “magic bus” as depicted in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild (1992) or Ken Ilgunas’s “vandwelling” (Walden on Wheels, 2013) to study the socio-political and environmental concerns raised by dwelling experiences in such peculiar or isolated “homes”. Finally, I will also briefly discuss the Native American perspective through an analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony (1977) as an example of the Laguna Pueblo’s perception of nature or the “land” as “home”.
Research center :
Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée (CIPA)
Disciplines :
Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Philosophy & ethics
Literature
Author, co-author :
Lombard, David  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Master lang. & lettres mod, or. gén., à fin. (AF)
Language :
English
Title :
Dwelling on Dwelling: Home and Nature in (Native) American Literature
Publication date :
16 November 2017
Event name :
Representations of Home 2 - Conflict and/or (Be)Longing: Thinking with Stories and Images
Event organizer :
The University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES/CEAUL)
Event place :
Lisbon, Portugal
Event date :
du 16 novembre 2017 au 17 novembre 2017
Audience :
International
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
References of the abstract :
https://representationsofhome.wordpress.com
Name of the research project :
Representations of Home (RHOME)
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