Summary of Sueellen Campbell's “Land and Language of Desire : Where Deep-ecology and Post-structuralism Meet"
Land and Language of Desire : Where Deep-ecology and Post-structuralism Meet The essay by Sueellen Campbell, “Land and Language of Desire : Where Deep-ecology and Post-structuralism Meet” which was published on the anthology The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology by Cherylly Glotfelty, is an important contribution to both environmental and literary studies. Campbell in this essay very vividly traces the points of intersection between deep-ecology and post-structural theory. SueEllen Campbell has identified several ways in which ecocriticism's relationship with other post-structural theories can be measured. According to Campbell, ecocriticism shares a number of similarities with deconstruction. Both approaches seek to destabilize dualistic thinking by disrupting binary categories such as nature and culture, self and other, human and non-human. By highlighting the ways in which these categories are constructed and contested, ecocritics and deconst...