Recentering the Peripheral: An Event-Based Ecocritical Methodology for World Literature

Strayer Elisabeth ()
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Strayer Elisabeth: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

New Global Studies, 2019, vol. 13, issue 1, 13-34

Abstract: This article presents an original methodology of world literature that draws upon ecocritical thought to rescale and recenter literary networks. Working particularly to unsettle the center-periphery model of world systems theory, an ecocritical study of world literature turns to more-than-human scales and forces. It asks that we take our cues from world-shattering or world-shaping ecological events and work outward to track how these events influence cultural and literary life across national, regional, imperial, and even planetary boundaries. After proposing assemblage as a primary technique for conducting an event-based literary study, the article demonstrates this methodology in a culminating analysis of literary representations, through various genres and forms, of the 1883 Krakatoa volcanic eruption.

Keywords: world literature; ecocriticism; event; Krakatoa; Anthropocene (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2019-0007

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