ABSTRACT
Post-pastoral writers such as Peter Redgrove and David Abram suggest that it is important that we reconnect with it through our direct sensuous apprehension of it that is prior to language. For many post-pastoral ecofeminist writers, Arcadia might be located within the body, were ‘the body’s world’ less damaged, environmentally and socially. It may have taken a contribution to British post-pastoral nature poetry from an Asian author to show Europeans that the modish call of the 1970s for radicalism to move ‘from red to green’ was misplaced. Socialist and feminist concerns need not displace each other, but can both be explored in literature in relation to environmentalism in what is called the environmental justice movement. One of the reasons why some scholars wish to give the impression of temporality to the term is because they want post-pastoral to be ‘post’ a contemporary environmental awareness.
