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The Disposition of Nature : Environmental Crisis and World Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (365 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823286805
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Disposition of NatureOnline resources:
Contents:
Cover -- THE DISPOSITION OF NATURE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Reading for the Planet -- Part I CITIZENS AND CONSUMERS -- 1. Consumption for the Common Good? Commodity Biography in an Era of Postconsumerism -- 2. Hijacking the Imagination: How to Tell the Story of the Niger Delta -- Part II RESOURCE LOGICS AND RISK LOGICS -- 3. From Waste Lands to Wasted Lives: Enclosure as Aesthetic Regime and Property Regime -- 4. How Far Is Bhopal? Inconvenient Forums and Corporate Comparison -- Epilogue: Fixing the World -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist practice. The book devotes particular attention to formerly colonized regions (e.g. Africa and South Asia) in order to understand the relationships among imperialism, globalization, and environmental injustice.
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Cover -- THE DISPOSITION OF NATURE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Reading for the Planet -- Part I CITIZENS AND CONSUMERS -- 1. Consumption for the Common Good? Commodity Biography in an Era of Postconsumerism -- 2. Hijacking the Imagination: How to Tell the Story of the Niger Delta -- Part II RESOURCE LOGICS AND RISK LOGICS -- 3. From Waste Lands to Wasted Lives: Enclosure as Aesthetic Regime and Property Regime -- 4. How Far Is Bhopal? Inconvenient Forums and Corporate Comparison -- Epilogue: Fixing the World -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist practice. The book devotes particular attention to formerly colonized regions (e.g. Africa and South Asia) in order to understand the relationships among imperialism, globalization, and environmental injustice.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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