Abstract

These conversations highlight the ways in which Stéphanie Posthumus and Anne Simon, who work in different academic fields but often look at similar literary texts written in French, envision ecocriticism and zoopoetics. Drawing on their research of the last twenty years, they discuss intersections and differences of these two approaches within their respective geographical contexts, North American and European (and more specifically French). They locate ecocriticism and zoopoetics in the complex and plural histories of their emergence and development while also making comparisons with similar fields such as geopoetics and environmental humanities. They foreground key objectives such as decentering the human and grounding language in the body, advocating for subjects deemed “unsuitable,” bringing together literature, ecologies and animal space-time, examining their objects of study from the perspective of the text’s individual stylistic innovations, reconfiguring literary canons and literary histories, and inventing new narratives and explorations around terms such as oikos, machines, arche…) Examining notions like identity, limits and interstices, they underscore the political and ethical dimensions of ecocritical or zoopoetic literature. Finally, they affirm the ever-changing frontiers and constantly evolving perspectives of their two fields.

摘要

这些对话凸显了StéphaniePosthumus和Anne Simon在不同学术领域工作的方式，但他们经常看相似的法文文学作品，设想生态批判和动物生态学。他们基于最近二十年的研究，讨论了这两种方法在各自的地理环境（北美和欧洲（尤其是法国））中的交叉和差异。他们将生态批评和动物生态学定位于其出现和发展的复杂和多元的历史中，同时还将它们与相似的领域进行比较，例如地理学和环境人文科学。他们着眼于一些关键目标，例如使人的语言和身体的语言偏心，倡导被认为“不合适”的主题，将文学，生态学和动物时空融合在一起，arche …）检查身份，界限和间隙等概念，强调了生态批判或动物生态学文学的政治和道德层面。最后，他们肯定了这两个领域不断变化的前沿和不断发展的观点。