Ecologische thematiek in hedendaagse fi ctie: Uitdagingen van milieufi losofi e, ecokritiek en animal studies voor de Nederlandstalige literatuur/ Ecology in the Contemporary Fiction: The Challenges of Environmental Philosophy, Ecocriticism and Animal Studies for the Study of Dutch and Flemish Literature

• Authors: Lucie Sedláčková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is based on the belief that in every historical period, there is a certain part of the literary production that reflects the recent events or tendencies in the contemporary society. Using my dissertation, in which I did research on the representations of the globalisation in recent Dutch and Flemish fiction, as an example of which issues were or were not represented in a number of selected Dutch-written novels, I point out that ecology, which turned to be a non-issue in my corpus, deserves new attention at this moment. My article suggests some attitudes that can help to interpret the ecological issues and the tightly connected subject of animal rights. The new challenges for the literary studies are first of all presented by the ecocriticism and the (critical) animal studies

Keywords

EN

cultural representation; Dutch literature; Flemish literature; 21st century; environmental philosophy; environmental ethics; animal studies

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Werkwinkel
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 99-114

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-07-11

Contributors

author

Lucie Sedláčková

• Charles University Ústav germánských studií Filozofi cká fakulta Univerzita Karlova nám. J. Palacha 2 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/werk-2015-0006