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Cognitive Ecocriticism in the Hawaiian Setting: Human Wayfinding in Alan Brennert's Novel Moloka'i
Cognitive Ecocriticism in the Hawaiian Setting: Human Wayfinding in Alan Brennert's Novel Moloka'i // Applying Teaching Innovations in the American Studies Curriculum, HUAmS
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 2013. (predavanje, podatak o recenziji nije dostupan, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Cognitive Ecocriticism in the Hawaiian Setting:
Human Wayfinding in Alan Brennert's Novel
Moloka'i
(Cognitive Ecocriticism in the Hawaiian Setting:
Human Wayfinding in Alan Brennert's Novel Moloka'i)
Autori
Troskot, Slavica
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni
Skup
Applying Teaching Innovations in the American Studies Curriculum, HUAmS
Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 06.04.2013
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan
Ključne riječi
cognitive ecocriticism, Hawaiian literature, wayfinding, survival, habitat, nature writing
Sažetak
In the article „Cognitive Ecocriticism: Human Wayfinding, Sociality and Literary Interpretation“ Nancy Easterlin summarizes four interdisciplinary levels connecting ecocriticism and cognitive narrative thinking: 1) human evolutionary past resulted in intelligent, social, culture-producing species, 2) essential to species survival are protective group and habitat, 3) our knowledge of the world is always specifically human, 4) human ways of knowing undergird our artistic modes and patterns. This perspective implies that „our epistemology is embedded in our functional response to environmental pressures and has direct bearing on literary artefacts.“ Based on these assumptions Easterlin proposes five possible aspects of literary interpretation: nature writing, narrative and journey, confinement, place attachment and homescript. Novel that serves as a case study in this analysis is a historical novel Moloka`i (2003) written by Alan Brennert. The novel is set in Hawai`i more than a century ago and foregrounds the story of survival in a quarantined leprosy settlement Kalupapa on the island of Moloka`i. The islands of Hawai`i usually considered to be a Pacific paradise become the place of disease, forced separation, decay but also struggle for survival. Brennert`s story seems like a fruitful ground for Easterlin`s five proposed aspects of interpretation, since the story combines, in multiple ways, numerous interrelations between environment, social groups, family ties (ohana), journey, home attachment, art (literature and painting), science, quest, survival and human wayfinding in relentless circumstances.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost
