A Stern Language of Beauty”
Ecological Grief and Ecofeminist Ethics in Paula Meehan’s Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jun Du (0000-0002-7164-4159, University College Dublin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 98-117 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpac002 |
| OpenAlex | W4211151133 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Through publicly mourning the loss of family members, communities, and natural habitats, Paula Meehan’s poems de-privatize and politicize grieving and lamentation, functioning in resistance to the existing social and cultural norms. From Reading the Sky (1985) to As If By Magic (2020), Meehan has been conscious of and has continuously delineated the deterioration of the ecosystem due to the exploitative expansion of human society. Drawing on ecofeminist theories and Judith Butler’s theorizations of precariousness and grievability, the essay explores how Meehan depicts ecological grief and the interrelationship between human and nonhuman beings at different stages of her poetic career; it further probes how she illuminates and complicates the ethics of mourning and ecofeminism in her ecological elegies
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Beauty · Biology · Ecocriticism · Ecofeminism · Environmental ethics · Grief · Literature · MAGIC (telescope · Natural (archaeology · Poetry · Reading (process · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology · Ecology · History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |