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1527539377 pdf Environmental and global outlooks are currently at the center of the most lively and urgent international scholarship. This volume serves to overcome the self-referentiality of American studies by intersecting the study of American literature and history with the questions and concerns raised by these perspectives. It re-conceptualizes the mutual and shifting positions of center(s) and margin(s), and subject(s) and object(s) in terms of relation and an inclusive structure of relations based on an ecological ethics. The contributions here explore many methodological hypotheses, ranging from Christa Greve-Vollps work on eco-cosmopolitanism to Peter Bardaglios report on US climate activism, as well as the ecocritical and ecofeminist viewpoints of Scott Slovic and Greta Gaard respectively. In addition to contributing to academic discourse, the essayswritten by both young and established international scholars, and coherently arranged into four thematic sectionsexplore topics that are of interest to the broader public. The issues discussed here include identity and new forms of belonging migration and the environment ecolanguage, ecopoetry and ecopoetics translation and multilingualism animal studies environmental activism shifting geographies and ecofeminism. Read more