The Ecocritical Erotic in Marjorie Evasco's "Elemental"

• Main Author: Calabias, Jose Kervin Cesar B.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: ba'i; ecocriticism; ecofeminism; erotica; Marjorie Evasco; trans-corporeality; Creative Writing; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Pacific Islands Languages and Societies; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol3/iss1/6; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1050/viewcontent/5_Calabias.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This brief article explores the critical entanglements of nature, matter, and the human body in Marjorie Evasco’s poem “Elemental.” Through ecocritical erotic writing, the text establishes the “trans-corporeal” relationships between human desire and the natural environment, the language of the eroti...