Ecofiction (also "eco-fiction" or "eco fiction") is the branch of literature that encompasses nature or environment-oriented works of fiction.[1] While this super genre's roots are seen in classic, pastoral, magical realism, animal metamorphoses, science fiction, and other genres, the term ecofiction did not become popular until the 1960s when various movements created the platform for an explosion of environmental and nature literature, which also inspired ecocriticism.[2] Ecocriticism is the study of literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyze texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature.[3] Environmentalists have claimed that the human relationship with the ecosystem often went unremarked in earlier literature.
According to Jim Dwyer, author of Where the Wild Books Are: A Field Guide to Ecofiction, "My criteria for determining whether a given work is ecofiction closely parallel Lawrence Buell's":
The nonhuman environment is present not merely as a framing device but as a presence that begins to suggest that human history is implicated in natural history.
The human interest is not understood to be the only legitimate interest.
Human accountability to the environment is part of the text's ethical orientation.
Some sense of the environment as a process rather than as a constant or a given is at least implicit in the text.' [4]
^Murphy, Patrick D. (2000). Further Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. p. 1.
^Dwyer, Jim (2010). Where the Wild Books are: A Field Guide to Ecofiction. University of Nevada Press.
^"What is ecocriticism? – Environmental Humanities Center". Retrieved 2020-02-26.
^Dwyer, Jim. "This Way to Sustainability Conference". Chico State. Chico State. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
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