Postcolonial Ecologies Literatures of the Environment

Name: Postcolonial Ecologies Literatures of the Environment
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ISBN: 9780195394436

ISBN-10: 0195394437

ISBN-13: 9780195394436

Edition: 2011

Authors: Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley

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This is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and nature, this book makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis. Turning to the contemporary production of postcolonial novelists and poets, this collection poses the literary imagination as a crucial to imagining what Eduoard Glissant calls the "aesthetics of the earth." The collection is organized around thematic concerns such as the relationship between culture and cultivation,…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/20/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.21" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Handley is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University.



Contributors


Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of the Earth




Cultivating Place



Cultivating Community: Counterlandscaping in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss




Haiti's Elusive Paradise




Toward a Caribbean Ecopoetics: Derek Walcott's Language of Plants




Forest Fictions



Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in Caribbean Literatures




The Postcolonial Ecology of the New World Baroque: Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps




Forest Fictions and Ecological Crises: Reading the Politics of Survival in Mahasweta Devi's ï¿½Dhowliï¿½




The Lives of (Nonhuman) Animals



Stranger in the Eco-Village: Environmental Time, Race, and Ecologies of Looking




What the Whales Would Tell Us: Cetacean Communication in Novels by Witi Ihimaera, Linda Hogan, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh




Compassion, Commodification, and The Lives of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Recent Fiction




ï¿½Tomorrow There Will Be More of Usï¿½: Toxic Postcoloniality in Animal's People




Militourism



Heliotropes: Solar Ecologies and Pacific Radiations




Activating Voice, Body, and Place: Kanaka Maoli and Ma'ohi Writings for Kaho'olawe and Moruroa




ï¿½Out of This Great Tragedy Will Come a World Class Tourism Destinationï¿½: Disaster, Ecology, and Post-Tsunami Tourism Development in Sri Lanka




In Place: Tourism, Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism, and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness



Works Cited


Index