Narratives of environmental challenges in Brazil and India : losing nature / edited by Zélia M. Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bora, Zélia, editor.

Murali, S. 1959- editor.

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice.

Ecocritical theory and practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental protection--Brazil.

Environmental protection.

Brazil.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages).

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature is comprised of research on the representation and interrogation of environmental issues in both subcontinents, Brazil and India.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

I: Contested Spaces: Resisting the Loss of Water and Forests

1 The Loss of Nature, Human and Nonhuman Relationships in Tamil Nadu

2 Human Intervention and the Depleting Well Springs of Nature

3 Green Risk

4 Sabarimala

II: Speaking Nature: The Cultural Dimensions of Water and Land

5 The Amazonas Rainforest Revisited

6 The Saga of Subalterns amidst Resource Crisis

7 Re-reading Nature, Restoring Nature

8 Nature, Religion, and Ecological Sustainability in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

III: The Voice of the Subaltern: Losing Nature

9 "Good God! The Tambochas!"

10 Around and Inside the Amazonas Rainforest

11 Myths of the Amazon River and the Theater A RA QI RI

12 The Role of Women in the Early Environmental Movement in India

Index

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-4985-8115-3

OCLC:

1065405728