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T1 Raymond Federman's To whom it may concern: Reading metafiction ecocritically
A1 Oppermann, Serpil
K1 Raymond Federman
K1 metaficción
K1 postmodernismo
K1 ecocrítica
K1 conciencia del lugar
K1 apego al lugar
AB This article aims to bring metafiction into dialogue with ecocriticism in order to enable a fruitful cross-fertilization between postmodern and ecological perceptions of reality. It explores ecocritical encounters with metafiction by primarily focusing on Raymond Federman’s novel, To Whom It May Concern (1990). The article presents what may seem controversial at first glance, an ecocritical reading of this characteristic example of metafiction. Although the novel is marked by linguistic playfulness, to seek environmentality in it would not exactly run counter to Federman’s postmodern conceptions of reality, identity, history, and natureas discursive constructs. The essential point I make in the article is that the landscape as a textual construct here is not a senseless abstraction. On the contrary, by blending with history it evokes a powerful place-bonding to constitute meaningful identities, and stands out as the only hope for meaning in life.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 0211-5913
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/12312
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/12312
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 24-nov-2024