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Ecological Humanist Mosaics: Dislocations and Relocations of the Autobiographical Self in Terry Tempest Williams’s Finding Beauty in a Broken World Sharman Tullis Gill Department of English, BYU Master of Arts Scientists and theorists are defining the contemporary era as the Anthropocene, an epoch of unprecedented human dominance. Terry Tempest Williams, in Finding Beauty in a Broken World, asserts an ethical place for the human being in the 21 century. In light of ecological humanism, as an eco-critical lens that ethically centers the human in relational systems, she presents the metaphor of mosaic as a human-directed response to relational fragmentation, putting her in conversation with theorists of the Anthropocene. Her narratives of the self in various communities evoke mosaic as relational harmony, harking back to Romantic notions of wholeness and subject-centrism while adding the contemporary aspect of an interconnected and changeable self who, in the Anthropocene, recognizes a stewardship in the construction and maintenance of mosaic. Williams employs literary techniques that suggest dislocations and relocations of the human subject in ethical modes of being. Through narrative modes, multidisciplinary language, and themes of conversation, gift-exchange, listening and response, Williams reflects ecological humanist mosaics, suggesting cooperative regeneration—an intersection of material beings facilitated by an ethical human imagination that listens, receives, and gives toward patterns of beauty, including, but not limited to, being human in a collective world. This eco-critical analysis of Williams’s work affirms the human being in post-humanist philosophy and repositions relational Romanticism for the 21 century.

isle interdisciplinary studies in literature and environment

Ecological Humanist Mosaics: Dislocations and Relocations of the Autobiographical Self in Terry Tempest Williams’s<i>Finding Beauty in a Broken World</i>

Ecological Humanist Mosaics: Dislocations and Relocations of the Autobiographical Self in Terry Tempest Williams’sFinding Beauty in a Broken World