Ecological Gothic: Spirit and Power in a Public Garden
The Elizabethan Gardens was designed in the mid-twentieth century as a living memorial for sixteenth-century English settlers who died on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Today, it is a site where layers of mourning converge; for long-lost colonists and recently deceased relatives, absent Indigenous...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Material religion
Anno: 2025, Volume: 21, Fascicolo: 1, Pagine: 1-29 |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Climate Change
B Race B Infrastructure B tree B Plants B Gender B Memorial B multispecies studies B Whiteness |
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| Riepilogo: | The Elizabethan Gardens was designed in the mid-twentieth century as a living memorial for sixteenth-century English settlers who died on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Today, it is a site where layers of mourning converge; for long-lost colonists and recently deceased relatives, absent Indigenous and Black people, and erosion-related land loss. Combining religious studies, multispecies studies, and literary studies of the Gothic, this article proposes the “ecological gothic” as a rubric for analyzing complex emotions and material relations in places, like the Gardens, that are defined by memory and ecological change. Its characteristics include an aesthetic of haunting, the melancholic romanticization of nature, and ruins or decayed infrastructure that seem to foreshadow collapse. In the Gardens, the ecological gothic shapes my discussion of human-plant relations, “unruly” infrastructure, mourning and spirit relations, set within a historical narrative that promoted American progress and White supremacy. Beyond the Gardens per se, I make the case for the ecological gothic as a framework through which scholars of religion might contribute to an emerging cross-disciplinary focus on how climate and ecological change is experienced, including in deeply emotional ways. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2024.2436319 |
