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Echoing Romance: James Cameron’s Avatar as Ecoromance
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 2, June 2014
- pp. 103-119
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0020
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay examines Avatar’s echoing of longstanding romance conventions while creating ecocentric romance or ecoromance, providing insight into the ecological ideology that informs the movie, while suggesting how and why romance remains such an enduring and popular fictional form.