Lits, souches, camps : circulations et proliférations écoféministes dans deux romans de Jean Hegland

Jean Hegland’s Into the Forest (1996) concludes with two sisters and their infant Burl abandoning their family home to embrace life in a neighbouring forest. Western domesticity, symbolised by private bedrooms, is replaced by the plural, biotic community of a centuries-old redwood forest. By taking refuge in a hollow stump, the trio attempts to shed their now obsolete social identity and adapt to a postapocalyptic American West. This process of redrawing the border between inhabited and uninh...