Moira Marquis
Biographic Data
| ID | 831262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moira Marquis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moira |
| FAMILY NAME | Marquis |
| SIGNATURE | MARQUIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | English, Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6409-3152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
This book tells the story of mass Incarceration in America through the writers who experienced it first-hand. It begins at mid-century with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, whose insights about racism and the criminal justice system warned of what was to come. It takes off in the 1960s and 1970s with revolutionary writers like George Jackson, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, seeking liberation not just from prison but the oppressive s…
Listening to Trees
Although Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory has received acclaim for depicting trees as intimately entangled with human lives, the novel denies trees a voice in the narrative. This paper argues that without being given a voice, trees are rendered objects and not moral subjects. While the novel has received acclaim as a political intervention, maintaining the object status for trees does not demand contemporary societies halt deforestation. In or…
Otherworld Here
Traditional stories of aos sí (faeries) express reverence for environments and non-human beings that provide powerful counternarratives to the virtually unquestioned assumption in the contemporary world that people have the ability, and therefore the right, to master nature. This article shows belief in these nature spirits is still prevalent in Ireland and is notably evidenced in resistance to roadways. It argues that these beliefs should be lev…
Human to Humus
Human to HumusMáirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille and Ecocriticism as a Decolonialist Strategy Moira Marquis (bio) Most criticism shares a conception of Western cultures as uniform and universally invested in human mastery of the environment and identifies this monolithic culture at the root of environmental destruction. Anna Tsing, in her work The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015), characterizes this scholarly understanding when she writes, "…
The Alien Within
In the contemporary crisis of race relations two schools of thought pursue the project of Black liberation: Afrofuturism and Afropessimism. Through a close reading of Neill Blomkamp's Afropessimist film District 9 (2009) and Nnedi Okorafor's Afrofuturist novel Lagoon (2014), written in response to the film, this article analyzes these projects' futures. While Afropessimism offers incisive critiques of historic and contemporary racism, the future …
The Alien Within
In the contemporary crisis of race relations two schools of thought pursue the project of Black liberation: Afrofuturism and Afropessimism. Through a close reading of Neill Blomkamp's Afropessimist film District 9 (2009) and Nnedi Okorafor's Afrofuturist novel Lagoon (2014), written in response to the film, this article analyzes these projects' futures. While Afropessimism offers incisive critiques of historic and contemporary racism, the future …
The Alien Within
In the contemporary crisis of race relations two schools of thought pursue the project of Black liberation: Afrofuturism and Afropessimism. Through a close reading of Neill Blomkamp's Afropessimist film District 9 (2009) and Nnedi Okorafor's Afrofuturist novel Lagoon (2014), written in response to the film, this article analyzes these projects' futures. While Afropessimism offers incisive critiques of historic and contemporary racism, the future …
Listening to Trees
Although Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory has received acclaim for depicting trees as intimately entangled with human lives, the novel denies trees a voice in the narrative. This paper argues that without being given a voice, trees are rendered objects and not moral subjects. While the novel has received acclaim as a political intervention, maintaining the object status for trees does not demand contemporary societies halt deforestation. In or…
Otherworld Here
Traditional stories of aos sí (faeries) express reverence for environments and non-human beings that provide powerful counternarratives to the virtually unquestioned assumption in the contemporary world that people have the ability, and therefore the right, to master nature. This article shows belief in these nature spirits is still prevalent in Ireland and is notably evidenced in resistance to roadways. It argues that these beliefs should be lev…
Human to Humus
Human to HumusMáirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille and Ecocriticism as a Decolonialist Strategy Moira Marquis (bio) Most criticism shares a conception of Western cultures as uniform and universally invested in human mastery of the environment and identifies this monolithic culture at the root of environmental destruction. Anna Tsing, in her work The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015), characterizes this scholarly understanding when she writes, "…
The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
This book tells the story of mass Incarceration in America through the writers who experienced it first-hand. It begins at mid-century with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, whose insights about racism and the criminal justice system warned of what was to come. It takes off in the 1960s and 1970s with revolutionary writers like George Jackson, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, seeking liberation not just from prison but the oppressive s…
Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works)