TY - JOUR
AU1 - Slovic, Scott
AB - ISLE 23. 3 (SUMMER 2 016) SCOTT SLOVIC Expansion and contraction. Moving ever outward, yet remembering the center, the root, home ground. Coming back to the core, to the canon, but from a new angle. And then lighting out again for new tex- tual territory. The spirit of discovery exists in tandem and tension with adherence to an essential vocabulary of justice and ethical behavior, to deep engagement with place, with otherness and sameness, and to aes- thetic responses to both physis (the physical world) and techne (human creations). Ecocriticism continues to spiral outward and inward. Mascha Gemein launches this issue of ISLE in centrifugal mode, using the concept of cosmopolitics to highlight how Western and Indigenous sciences aspire to expand “political participation beyond the human realm.” Using the rubric of “cosmopolitical environmental justice discourse,” she points to Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Gardens in the Dunes as a work that advances this impulse toward multispecies ethical consideration. The postcolonial and decolonial concerns that emerge in Gemein’s study extend to Alan Johnson’s analysis of the importance of ”sacred forests” as a key trope in the work of contempo- rary Bengali fiction writer Mahasweta Devi, in which he applies an ecofeminist 
TI - Editor’s Note
JF - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/isw062
DA - 2016-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/editor-s-note-1NgVovabhv
SP - 483
EP - 484
VL - 23
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -