Global ecologies and the environmental humanities : postcolonial approaches / edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967- editor.

Didur, Jill, 1965- editor.

Carrigan, Anthony, 1980- editor.

Series:

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31.

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Environmentalism in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Human ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 391 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Contents:

Part I The Politics of Earth: Forests, Gardens, Plantations 33

1 Narrativizing Nature: India, Empire, and Environment / David Arnold Arnold, David 35

2 "The Perverse Little People of the Hills:" Unearthing Ecology and Transculturation in Reginald Farrer's / Jill Didur Didur, Jill 51

3 Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the Sugar Plantation / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth 73

4 Writing a Native Garden?: Environmental Language and Post-Mabo Literature in Australia / Susan K. Martin Martin, Susan K. 95

Part II Disaster, Vulnerabdity, and Resilience 115

5 Towards a Postcolonial Disaster Studies / Anthony Carrigan Carrigan, Anthony 117

6 Nuclear Disaster: The Marshall Islands Experience and Lessons for a Post-Fukushima World / Barbara Rose Johnston Johnston, Barbara Rose 140

7 Island Vulnerability and Resilience: Combining Knowledges for Disaster Risk Reduction, Including Climate Change Adaptation / Ilan Kelman Kelman, Ilan, Jc Gaillard Gaillard, Jc, Jessica Mercer Mercer, Jessica, James Lewis Lewis, James, Anthony Carrigan Carrigan, Anthony 162

Part III Political Ecologies and Environmental Justice 187

8 The Edgework of the Clerk: Resilience in Arundhati Roy's Walking with the Comrades / Susie O'Brien O'Brien, Susie 189

9 Filming the Emergence of Popular Environmentalism in Latin America: Postcolonialism and Buen Vivir / Jorge Marcone Marcone, Jorge 207

10 Witnessing the Nature of Violence: Resource Extraction and Political Ecologies in the Contemporary African Novel / Byron Caminero-Santangelo Caminero-Santangelo, Byron 226

Part IV Mapping World Ecologies 243

11 Narrating a Global Future: Our Common Future and the Public Hearings of the World Commission on Environment and Development / Cheryl Lousley Lousley, Cheryl 245

12 Oil on Sugar: Commodity Frontiers and Peripheral Aesthetics / Michael Niblett Niblett, Michael 268

13 Ghost Mountains and Stone Maidens: Ecological Imperialism, Compound Catastrophe, and the Post-Soviet Ecogothic / Sharae Deckard Deckard, Sharae 286

Part V Terraforming, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene 307

14 Terraforming Planet Earth / Joseph Masco Masco, Joseph 309

15 Climate Change, Cosmology, and Poetry: The Case of Derek Walcott's Omeros / George B. Handley Handley, George B. 333

16 Ordinary Futures: Interspecies Worldings in the Anthropocene / Elizabeth Deloughrey Deloughrey, Elizabeth 352.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138827721

113882772X

OCLC:

890180263