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  • Chapter 17 - Cultivating Nature

  • from Part III - Applications
  • Edited by Peter Remien, Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho, Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
  • Book:
    Nature and Literary Studies
    Published online:
    22 July 2022
    Print publication:
    04 August 2022, pp 310-324

  • Summary

    In Chapter 17, “Cultivating Nature,” Shiuhhuah Serena Chou analyzes the development of farming literature from Virgil’s ancient didactic poem The Georgics to the contemporary writing of authors like Wendell Berry. The chapter begins with a timely analysis of the agricultural origins of the novel coronavirus pandemic and of the pandemic’s xenophobic representations in the media and political discourse. Chou connects the pandemic to modern industrial agriculture and turns to farming literature for alternative imaginings of humanity’s relationship to the land and food production. Chou illuminates how farm writing in the Anthropocene moves beyond the pastoral-georgic binary that structures earlier examples of the genre, analyzing the works of David Mas Masumoto, his wife Marcy, and his daughter Nikiko as paradigmatic examples.