Elective

CLIT7023 Ecological Imaginations in Literary and Visual narratives

This course will examine the significant ideas, concepts, debates, and questions around ecocriticism, environmental studies, animal studies, and posthumanism by studying a selection of contemporary literary and visual narratives. The ways in which nature, animals, and humans are situated and represented in these narratives carry environmental, ethical, political and philosophical ramifications. The course will also examine models of critique and change as responses to historical and critical contexts and global ecological conditions. Students will apply appropriate key ecocritical concepts such as deep ecology, ecofeminism, queer ecocriticism, and green activism to analyze literary and visual narratives.