RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Bettering stories about stories about nature
A1 Jørgensen, Dolly
K1 Biography
K1 Environmental history
K1 Extinction
K1 Museums
K1 Natural history
K1 Tortoise
K1 Biografía
K1 Historia medioambiental
K1 Extinción
K1 Museos
K1 Historia natural
K1 Tortuga
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB 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.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45750
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45750
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 26-abr-2024