Beyond elegy: confronting grief in contemporary ecopoetry

超越挽歌：面对当代生态诗歌中的悲伤

• 批准号: 2597853
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2597853
• 关键词: Beyond; elegy; confronting; grief; contemporary

My thesis will hypothesise that ecopoetry - poetry that responds directly to problems of environmentaldestruction - deviates from traditional elegy in its handling of ecological grief, the loss felt in response toecological degradation that is often associated with climate change and colonialism. With reference tocross disciplinary research into the effects of climate change on mental health, I will examine howecological degradation ruptures the cycles of nature that underpin the elegiac convention of consolation,and ask whether ecopoetry is therefore forging a new kind of mourning that sustains melancholy. To thisend, I will address poetry by Juliana Spahr, Ed Roberson, Linda Hogan and Andre Bagoo. By reading thesetexts from the USA, The Chickasaw Nation and Trinidad through a comparative lens, I will investigate howecopoetry's resistance to consolation allows the movement to at once leave open the possibility ofpositive change and locate ecological grief within the ongoing trauma of colonialism. The physicalenvironments that ecopoetry mourns will emerge as a testament to the emotionally charged relationshipwhich exists between people and place, metonymic for all that is lost when that relationship is broken.

我的论文将假设生态诗——直接回应环境破坏问题的诗歌——在处理生态悲伤方面偏离了传统的挽歌，生态悲伤是对通常与气候变化和殖民主义相关的生态退化的回应。参考气候变化对心理健康影响的跨学科研究，我将研究生态退化如何破坏支撑挽歌安慰惯例的自然循环，并询问生态诗是否因此正在形成一种维持忧郁的新型哀悼。为此，我将介绍朱莉安娜·斯帕尔、埃德·罗伯森、琳达·霍根和安德烈·巴古的诗歌。通过比较的视角阅读来自美国、契卡索民族和特立尼达的这些文本，我将研究诗歌对安慰的抵制如何让这场运动立即留下积极改变的可能性，并将生态悲伤定位在殖民主义持续的创伤中。生态诗哀悼的物理环境将成为人与地方之间存在的充满情感的关系的证明，转喻当这种关系破裂时所失去的一切。