Postcolonial green environmental politics & world narratives
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Charlottesville ; London
University of Virginia Press
2010
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Schriftenreihe: | Under the sign of nature
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Commonwealth literature (English) / History and criticism
> Human ecology in literature
> Ecology in literature
> Colonies in literature
> Postcolonialism in literature
> Environmental justice in literature
> Environmentalism in literature
> Imperialism / Environmental aspects
> Globalization / Environmental aspects
> Ecocriticism
> Globalisierung
> Umwelt
> Literatur
> Humanökologie
> Postkolonialismus
> Umweltschutz
> Englisch
> Aufsatzsammlung
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index 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 |
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Beschreibung: | xi, 301 Seiten |
ISBN: | 9780813930008 978-0-8139-3000-8 9780813930015 978-0-8139-3001-5 9780813930657 978-0-8139-3065-7 |