Desertscapes in the Global South and beyond : Anthropocene naturecultures / edited by Sushila Shekhawat, Rayson K. Alex and Swarnalatha Rangarajan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shekhawat, Sushila, editor.

Alex, Rayson K., editor.

Rangarajan, Swarnalatha, 1969- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deserts in literature.

Deserts in motion pictures.

Deserts--Social aspects--Developing countries.

Deserts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 244 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Sushila Shekhawat (Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani; Areas of Expertise: Film and Media Studies) is Associate Professor at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus. She has 23 journal essays, 13 book chapters and one edited volume to her credit. Rayson K. Alex (Ph.D. from Madras Christian College, University of Madras; Areas of Expertise: Ecocriticism) is Associate Professor at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus. He has 11 journal essays, 22 book chapters and 6 edited books to his credit. He is the founder and co-director of tiNai Ecofilm Festival. Swarnalatha Rangarajan (Ph.D. from University of Madras; Areas of Expertise: Ecocriticism and American Literature) is Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She has published 24 journal essays, 11 book chapters and 7 edited books, a novel and a monograph.

Contents:

Introduction / Sushila Shekhawat, Rayson K.Alex and Swarnalatha Rangarajan

Topologies of nihilism : Anthropocene imaginaries and the figure of the desert / Aidan Tynan

Inheriting isotopes : the Androcene and the End of nature in the Great Victoria Desert A-bomb test sites / CA. Cranston

Old green deserts and new brown pools : post-colonization, neo-colonization, and decolonization / Iris Ralph

Slow violence and the desert ecology : re-reading terra nullius in Hergé's Arab World / Nilanjana Chatterjee, Anindita Chatterjee, and Boijayanto Mukherjee

Environmental and cultural disequilibriums in Southeast Asian literature / Chitra Sankaran

This land shouldn't be a desert : the collapse of Western civilization in 18th century "California" / Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí

Graciliano Ramos and Bessie Head : political and affective dimensions of two different deserts / Izabel F. O. Brandão

Songs of longing : love narratives and the geographical imaginaries of the Thar Desert / Tanuja Kothiyal

Palai (arid and semi-arid) landscapes in early Tamil literature and history of south India / V. Selvakumar

Under another sky : a triptych in the Thar Desert / Vidya Sarveswaran

A different story in the Anthropocene : "ecological migrants" greening deserts in China / Zhou Xiaojing

Tibet : a new Shambala for posthumanist imagination / Gang Yue

Overcoming the nature/culture divide : what can we learn from Aboriginal culture in the Anthropocene? / Roslynn Haynes

The sustainable way of life of the Bedouin gone / Sharif Elmusa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Desertscapes in the Global South and beyond

ISBN:

9781003280774

1003280773

9781000937336

100093733X

9781000937299

1000937291

Publisher Number:

40032013387

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