Greenwor(l)ds
Ecocritical Readings of Poetry by Canadian Women

Diana M.A. Relke

About the Book

Greenwor(l)ds rewrites the literary history of Canada from a feminist ecological perspective through a series of essays that examine the lives and work of nine women poets. Using insights from fields of knowledge as disparate as history and biology, physics and philosophy, psychoanalysis and communications studies, these essays reflect the transdisciplinary character of women's studies generally and feminist ecocriticism in particular.

" Writing in a clear, accessible style, the author displays a breadth of understanding of several issues of cultural and literary importance, while offering interesting, close readings of new and established Canadian women poets. She explains alternative, and for the most part, forgotten nature myths. " - Andrea Lebowitz, Department of Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University

About the Author

Diana M.A. Relke is founding member and Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the Univerisity of Saskatchewan. An interdisciplinist, her scholarly work has appeared in numerous collections and journals spanning the disciplines, from English literature through psychology to gender and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

1. Poetic Consciousness
   • Double Voice, Single Vision: Ecopoetic Subjectivity and Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie
   • Mother Nature, Daughter Culture: Marjorie Pickthall's Quest for Poetic Identity
   • Noble and Ignoble Savagery: Patriarchy and Primitivism in the Poetry of Constance Lindsay Skinner
2. Ecological Consciousness
   • The Task of Poetic Mediation: Revisiting Dorothy Livesay's Early Poetry
   • The Ecological Vision of Isabella Valancy Crawford: A Reading of Malcolm's Katie
   • "time is, the delta": Steveston in Historical and Ecological Context
3. Ecocritical Consciousness
   • Feminist Ecocritique as Forensic Archaeology: Digging in Critical Graveyards and Phyllis Webb's Gardens
   • Tracing the Terrestrial in the Early Work of P.K. Page: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Ecoreading
   • Confronting the Green Indian: Aboriginal Poetry and Canadian Literary Tradition
   • Recovering the Body, Reclaiming the Land: Marilyn Dumont's Halfbreed Poetic

   
   Afterword: Does Nature Matter?

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