Book contents
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Development
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 14 Nature, Gender, Sexuality
- Chapter 15 Nature and Race
- Chapter 16 The Nature of Animality
- Chapter 17 Cultivating Nature
- Chapter 18 Narrating Nature
- Chapter 19 Digital Nature
- Chapter 20 Toxic Nature
- Chapter 21 Messages from Within
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 17 - Cultivating Nature
from Part III - Applications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2022
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Development
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 14 Nature, Gender, Sexuality
- Chapter 15 Nature and Race
- Chapter 16 The Nature of Animality
- Chapter 17 Cultivating Nature
- Chapter 18 Narrating Nature
- Chapter 19 Digital Nature
- Chapter 20 Toxic Nature
- Chapter 21 Messages from Within
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 17, “Cultivating Nature,” Shiuhhuah Serena Chou analyzes the development of farming literature from Virgil’s ancient didactic poem The Georgics to the contemporary writing of authors like Wendell Berry. The chapter begins with a timely analysis of the agricultural origins of the novel coronavirus pandemic and of the pandemic’s xenophobic representations in the media and political discourse. Chou connects the pandemic to modern industrial agriculture and turns to farming literature for alternative imaginings of humanity’s relationship to the land and food production. Chou illuminates how farm writing in the Anthropocene moves beyond the pastoral-georgic binary that structures earlier examples of the genre, analyzing the works of David Mas Masumoto, his wife Marcy, and his daughter Nikiko as paradigmatic examples.
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- Nature and Literary Studies , pp. 310 - 324Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022