%0 Journal Article 
%A Jørgensen, Dolly
%T Bettering stories about stories about nature
%D 2020
%@ 2171-9594
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45750
%X Both environmental historians and ecocritics are in the business of simultaneously analysing the stories we tell about the human-nature relationship and creating those stories. Using the case of Kiki, an Aldabra giant tortoise on display in the “Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle” in Paris, I present three potential text types in museum displays which lend themselves to new ecocritical readings: museum labels, biographical displays, and material remains. Ecocritical approaches to the genres of scientific texts and animal biographies and the developing field of material ecocriticism prove useful for making sense of the complex narratives of environmental history. Reaching out to ecocriticism approaches can make the stories I tell about museum displays as an environmental historian better.

%K Biography
%K Environmental history
%K Extinction
%K Museums
%K Natural history
%K Tortoise
%K Biografía
%K Historia medioambiental
%K Extinción
%K Museos
%K Historia natural
%K Tortuga
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala