Fractured Ecologies Call for Contributions to an edited collection on environmental criticism and radical experimental writing Edited by Chad

Weidner and Franca Bellarsi Since the 1990s, ecocriticism has influenced the ways we study literature, but fractures remain. If environmental scholars are to continue challenging conventional approaches to literary study, inventive methods must be continually developed and improved. British scholar Harriet Tarlo has made a call for environmental engagement with experimental writing, and reminds us that very few eco -critics engage with innovative or experimental writing. Franca Bellarsi agrees, and emphasizes the real need to research green ethics in different avant-garde practices. And while there has been some preliminary ecocritical work on what can be called experimental nature-writing, so far the most radical writing forms have largely been overlooked. Wild avant-garde writing is a limit case of sorts, and the difficulties in studying such forms are impossible to really avoid. But the lack of ecological perspectives on experimental writing justifies and demands more attention. Moreover, conventional academic publishing outlets have promoted a rather homogenous and monocultural understanding of scholarship that excludes inventive fringe observations. Therefore, Fractured Ecologies welcomes rigorous and irreverent papers that address radical experimental writing and other borderline manifestations in an environmental context. The fundamental question that Fractured Ecologies will attempt to address is: How does radical experimental writing contribute to the ways we think about ecology? Suggested topics may include but are not limited to discussions of ecology in a wide sense and: Aleatory writing Altar Poetry Assemblage ASCII art Bizzaro fiction Comic jam Caligram Chance procedures Concrete poetry Cut-up/fold-in Dada writing Dictionaraoke Digital poetry Exquisite Corpse Fax art Fluxus poetry Found text Fragments and remnants Glorious plagiarism Graffiti and wildstyle Guerrilla semiotics Haptic poetry

Imagism L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry Mechanical narrative agency Pictography Psychography Round-robin texts Runes Sound poetry Surrealist writing Visual poetry Words in Freedom This project is under contract with an independent academic publisher. Contributors will receive a free copy of the book. Please send paper abstracts of 500 words and a working title to Chad Weidner at c.weidner@ucr.nl before 1 January 2014. Final essays should conform to the MLA documentation style. Final papers will be due before 1 July 2014. Please email with questions. Dr. Chad Weidner Assistant Professor, English and Film UCR Utrecht University Lange Noordstraat 1 4331 CB Middelburg The Netherlands