Ecoambiguity, community, and development : toward a politicized ecocriticism / edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Slovic, Scott, 1960- editor.

Swarnalatha, R., editor.

Sarveswaran, Vidya, editor.

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

xvi, 198 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]

Summary:

Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas have long recognized that as soon as we tug on a thread of "ecodegradation," we generally find it linked to some form of cultural oppression. The reverse is also often true. In the spirit of postcolonial ecocriticism, the studies collected by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran emphasize the impossibility of disentangling environmental and cultural problems. While not all the authors explicitly invoke Karen Thornber's term "ecoambiguity" or the concepts and terminology of postcolonial ecocriticism, their articles frequently bring to light various ironies. The repetition of this and other paradoxes in human cultural responses to the more-than-human world reinforces our sense of the congruities and idiosyncrasies of human culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Chinese Literature and Environmental Crises: Plundering Borderlands North and South / Karen Thornber Thornber, Karen 1

2 Tibet, a Topos in Ecopolitics of the Global South / Gang Yue Yue, Gang 13

3 Red China, Green Amnesia: Locating Environmental Justice in Contemporary Chinese Literature / Cheng Li Li, Cheng, Yanjun Liu Liu, Yanjun 33

4 Minamata and the Symbolic Discourse of the South / Tsutomu Takahashi Takahashi, Tsutomu 59

5 Indian Environmentalism and its Fragments / Jyotirmaya Tripathy Tripathy, Jyotirmaya 71

6 From Bhopal to Biometrics: Biological Citizenship in the Age of Globalization / Pramod K. Nayar Nayar, Pramod K. 85

7 Beyond the Eco-flaneur's Footsteps: Perambulatory Narration in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying / Laura A. White White, Laura A. 99

8 Reconsidering the Eco-Imperatives of Ukrainian Consciousness: An Introduction to Ukrainian Environmental Literature / Inna Sukhenko Sukhenko, Inna 113

9 Kissed by Lightning and Fourth Cinema's Natureculture Continuum / Salma Monani Monani, Salma 131

10 "Under all the laws, natural, human, and divine": Reinterpreting La Leyenda Negra's Colonial Purpose / Dora Ramirez-Dhoore Ramirez-Dhoore, Dora 149

11 Mapmaking, Rubbertapping: Cartography and Social Ecology in Euclides da Cunha's The Amazon: Land Without History / Aarti S. Madan Madan, Aarti S. 161

12 Down Under: New World Literatures and Ecocriticism / George B. Handley Handley, George B. 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739189085

0739189085

OCLC:

865536785