Post Nature and Ecocritical Epic in Namwali Serpell’s The Old…

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_18112
dc.title	Post Nature and Ecocritical Epic in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
dc.contributor.author	Mondo Costanza
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2024/1/post-nature-and-ecocritical-epic-in-namwali-serpel/
dc.description.abstract	Although in postcolonial ecocritical literature the agency of animals finds full recognition, representations of insects are so rare that curiosity arises about their untapped ecocritical meaning. Interestingly, in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift, a chorus of mosquitoes takes centre stage. In the first section of this paper, I argue that Serpell’s novel recontextualises classical references, placing them between adaptation to the conventions of epic poems and innovation. In the second section, the ecocritical meanings of the chorus of mosquitoes are analysed and framed in relation to the concepts of ‘simulacrum’ and post nature.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lagoonscapes
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 4 \| Num. 1 \| Giugno 2024
dc.issued	2024-07-08
dc.dateAccepted	2024-06-05
dc.dateSubmitted	2024-03-26
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-2709
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/01/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ecocriticism
dc.subject	Epic poems
dc.subject	Namwali Serpell
dc.subject	Post nature
dc.subject	The Old Drift

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Post Nature and Ecocritical Epic in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift

Costanza Mondo Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia

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Although in postcolonial ecocritical literature the agency of animals finds full recognition, representations of insects are so rare that curiosity arises about their untapped ecocritical meaning. Interestingly, in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift, a chorus of mosquitoes takes centre stage. In the first section of this paper, I argue that Serpell’s novel recontextualises classical references, placing them between adaptation to the conventions of epic poems and innovation. In the second section, the ecocritical meanings of the chorus of mosquitoes are analysed and framed in relation to the concepts of ‘simulacrum’ and post nature.

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08 Luglio 2024

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05 Giugno 2024

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26 Marzo 2024

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Keywords: Epic poems • Namwali Serpell • The Old Drift • Ecocriticism • Post nature

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