Quelles formes narratives pour l’écologie ? Littérature française et francophone (XIXe-XXIe s.)

What Narrative Forms for Ecology? French and Francophone Literature (19th–21st Centuries)

Drawing on the methodologies of ecocriticism, ecopoetics, and the digital humanities, this volume investigates literary forms capable of articulating the challenges of ecology. It examines a range of strategies employed by ecologically engaged literature, from the nineteenth century—when writers sought to apprehend the complexity of the relationship between human beings and Nature—to the contemporary period, in which literature reflects upon its own agency. The volume offers examples of the articulation between science and fiction, explorations of temporal and spatial scales, new conceptions of place, a return to shorter forms, and the pursuit of a non-anthropocentric perspective, alongside post- and decolonial ecopoetics. Taken together, these analyses present literature as a space of formal experimentation, one capable of renewing the relationship between human beings, the Earth, and other forms of life.

Keywords: ecopoetics, zoopoetics, digital humanities, Anthropocene, decolonialism, narrative forms

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