Let's sharpen the blades
Ecofeminism in American Covid literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3646479 |
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| Authors | Marta Fernández-Morales (0000-0002-9116-3950, Universidad de Oviedo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 777-788 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09589236.2023.2281386 |
| OpenAlex | W4388696063 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
During the spring of 2020, literary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were quick to appear. Poetry, essays and diaries proliferated, and collective initiatives sprang up, with authors delving into a crisis that was national as well as global; political as well as health-based. In their lockdown works, US-based authors tackled their experience in the context of the country, chronicling the virus alongside inequality, racism and environmental challenges. Sheltering in place on either side of the Continental Divide, Pam Houston and Amy Irvine maintained an intense correspondence that was later published as Air Mail. Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place, which this article approaches as representative of ecofeminist COVID literature. It tracks their epistolary journey from the self to the social and back, discussing their narrative of the pandemic within the framework of their shared stance. Their letters are read as heirs to second-wave feminism and analysed as one instance of the current permeation of ecofeminist theories, specifically the material perspective. Through the study of Houston and Irvine’s correspondence, this article aims to illuminate the cultural work done by American ecofeminist writers during an extraordinary period
Art · Ecofeminism · Environmental ethics · Feminism · Literature · Narrative · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
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| Highly cited | No |
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