Queer ecopoetics : contemporary American poetry in these scandals of time

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dc.contributor.advisorBennett, Chad, 1976-
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHouser, Heather
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKafer, Alison
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRonda, Margaret
dc.creatorTrain, Emma Juliette
dc.creator.orcid0000-0001-7899-0073
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-18T02:17:09Z
dc.date.available2023-02-18T02:17:09Z
dc.date.created2022-12
dc.date.issued2022-09-16
dc.date.submittedDecember 2022
dc.date.updated2023-02-18T02:17:10Z
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation establishes the urgent political stakes of reading environmental poetry through queer epistemologies. The heteronormative visions of future life that often tacitly shape how we read environmental poems rely on patriarchal logics that offer limited resources for an ethics of living in our precarious material present. I argue that queer poets offer a rich archive for theorizing alternatives to these normative models of time and of anthropocentric life. In constellating the three discourses that animate my dissertation (ecocriticism, queer studies, and poetic theory) around shared theoretical questions regarding futurity, reproduction, and beyond-human relationality, I illustrate how contemporary environmental discourses regarding human reproduction and (non)human futures cannot be extricated from anti-racist and feminist interrogations of gender and sexuality. Through theoretically-situated close readings of formally-inventive poems, I articulate the significance of experimental and mixed-genre verse to a long history of American postwar ecopoetry. Contemporary queer poets use these experimental forms and structures, I argue, to reconceptualize time (as well as what it means to be human) by producing capacious models of agency and voice.
dc.description.departmentEnglish
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/117500
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/44380
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectPoetry
dc.subjectEcocriticism
dc.subjectQueer theory
dc.subjectEcopoetry
dc.subjectMuriel Rukeyser
dc.subjectCAConrad
dc.subjectEtel Adnan
dc.subjectDawn Lundy Martin
dc.titleQueer ecopoetics : contemporary American poetry in these scandals of time
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentEnglish
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austin
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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