| Metka Zupancic
Literature and Ecofeminism: Custodians of Words, Custodians of Nature
In a highly urban intellectual setting of large cities, a number of French and Francophone women writers find ways to create a haven of peace, an oasis of beauty where plants and words can flourish. Two very different po
issues and about nature, serve as examples of contemporary ecofeminism such as expressed mainly in literature. Both authors are using mythical figures, primarily a revised version of Eurydice emerging from the oblivion
the body as a sacred place for words to be formed, for experiences to be lived, which brings forth the Aphrodite principle. Mostly, they both incarnate the creative principle such as manifested through the feminine, the mo
that may bring about healing and connectedness among humans and in the world. Metka Zupancic is an Associate Professor of French/Modern Languages, at the University of Alabama in Lucy Penna, PhD
An Archetypal Web Toward Abundance
Native people all over the Americas share a widespread belief: Earth is a living organism with its own form of consciousness. Modern science is gradually coming to recognize this, as shown by James Lovelock' Gaia Hyp
presents a similar understanding. Both approaches bring up meaningful theoretical and practical correlations to environmental education. They also raise a challenge: how to link them together in a solid train of thought ad
application of Canadian and Brazilian native knowledge to environmental education, taking Jungian archetype theory as a supporting framework. Three sets of exercises are presented as suggestive options to develop an
enhance the quality of children's and young people's relationship toward fruits, animals and land, through sensory stimuli, active visualization, dance and other expressive art techniques. The basic assumption is that ancie
creatively turned into educational iniciatives.
Lucy Penna , PhD ( University of Sao Paulo) is a Jungian therapist living in Brazil. She is the author of three books and teaches at the University Salgado de Oliveira in Goiania. Her activities abroad include lectures and
Canada and Germany. In parallel, she practices dance and ceramic art. www.lucypenna.com or lucypenna@terra.com.brTuscaloosa, USA. She publish
and Aphrodite Encounters (2004) and Death, Language, Thought: On Gérard Bucher's L'imagination de l'origine (2005) appear among the collective volumes she edited on myths and spirituality in literature. Her collection
Her forthcoming projects deal with questions of feminine genealogy and writing as rememberment, in works of contemporary Francophone women writers. |