Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
Chunks of walls and flooring crash in mangled heaps as an enormous orange crane smashes apart the science building. Fueled in part by energy funds, Trinity University is updating its campus. Several hundred feet away, purple martins swoop down to feed squawking chicks nestled in white plastic gourds dangling from an angular metallic pole. In the university's community garden, ripe tomatoes are going to waste. Beyond the demolition site, a grackle lands on the neatly mown grass, where he puffs up and struts while other grackles watch him.
Identifier
10.1093/isle/iss064
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Repository Citation
Phillips, D. & Sullivan, H.I. (2012). Material ecocriticism: Dirt, waste, bodies, food, and other matter. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, 19(3), 445-447. doi:10.1093/isle/iss064
Publication Information
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment