The Ecopoetics of War

Sylvain Belluc is Senior Lecturer in British History and Literature at Nîmes University and Researcher at Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University, France. Isabelle Brasme is Professor of British Literature at the University of Burgundy, France. Guillaume Tanguy is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University, France.

Introduction

Sylvain Belluc, Isabelle Brasme, and Guillaume Tanguy

PART I

Distributive Agency, Shared Vulnerability, and Decomposition

1 Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War Stories and Essays: The Bitterness of a “Cynic” or the Insight of a Neo-Materialist?

Marie-Odile Salati

2 Between Safety and Conflict: War and Nature in a Few Poems of the First World War

Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt

3 Fantasized Muddy Landscapes: William Faulkner’s World War I

Frédérique Spill

PART II

Resilience, Recomposition, and Reconsideration

4 Plotting the Blitzscape: from Representation to Composition in Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950)

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra

5 Knocking on Delville Wood: The Destruction of Natural Elements During World War I and The Construction of a South African Memory

Gilles Teulié

6 “A Prophetic Vision of the Past:” The Nature of War in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Biblique des Derniers Gestes (2002)

Carine Mardorossian

7 The Dissenting Ecology of War Writing: Capitalocene and Ecocide in the Iraq War Fiction of Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Roy Scranton

Julien Brugeron

PART III

Technopoetics

8 The Corpse in the Garden: War and Nature in American Literature, from Walt Whitman to James Ellroy

Benoît Tadié

9 Knights on Wheels: Chivalry and Horsepower in the American Ambulance Corps

Daniel Bowman

10 Submarine Optics in Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop

Rachel Murray