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Postcolonial green : environmental politics & world narratives / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Under the sign of nature.
- Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Commonwealth literature (English).
- Human ecology in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Environmental justice in literature.
- Environmentalism in literature.
- Imperialism--Environmental aspects.
- Imperialism.
- Globalization--Environmental aspects.
- Globalization.
- Ecocriticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Heise, Stanford University * Jonathan Highfield, Rhode Island School of Design * Alex Hunt, West Texas A&M University * Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University * Patrick D. Murphy, University of Central Florida * Bonnie Roos, West Texas A&M University * Caskey Russell, University of Wyoming * Rachel Stein, Siena College * Sabine Wilke, University of Washington * Laura Wright, Western Carolina University * Sheng-yen Yu, National Taipei University of Technology * Gang Yue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/Xiamen University.
- Contents:
- Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt
- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright
- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu; "Relations with food": agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield
- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja
- North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein
- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke
- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy
- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos
- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585165
- 9781280489938
- 1280489936
- 9780813930657
- 0813930650
- OCLC:
- 755621586
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