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Postcolonial green : environmental politics & world narratives
- Title
- Postcolonial green : environmental politics & world narratives / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt.
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
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- Description
- xi, 301 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism
- Uniform Title
- Under the sign of nature.
- Subject
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-6956
- ISBN
- 9780813930008 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813930006 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780813930015 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0813930014 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813930657 (e-book)
- 0813930650 (e-book)
- LCCN
- 2010002151
- OCLC
- YBP 2010002151
- Title
- Postcolonial green : environmental politics & world narratives / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt.
- Imprint
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- Series
- Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticismUnder the sign of nature.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Roos, Bonnie, 1970-Hunt, Alex.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-6956