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Postcolonial Green : Environmental Politics and World Narratives.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Under the Sign of Nature SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813930657
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Postcolonial GreenDDC classification:
  • 820.9/36
LOC classification:
  • PR9080.5.P69 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Narratives of Survival, Sustainability, and Justice -- ASIA &amp -- THE SOUTH PACIFIC -- Arundhati Roy: Environment and Uneven Form -- Jungle Tide, Devouring Reef: (Post)colonial Anxiety and Ecocritique in Sri Lankan Literature -- Fragments of Shangri-La: "Eco-Tibet" and Its Global Circuits -- Diggers, Strangers, and Broken Men: Environmental Prophecy and the Commodifcation of Nature in Keri Hulme's The Bone People -- AFRICA -- Ravaging the Earth, Wasting Our Patrimony": Excess Hunting, Landscape Depletion, and Environmental Apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians -- Relations with Food": Agriculture, Colonialism, and Foodways in the Writing of Bessie Head -- Rhetorics of Endangerment: Cultural Difference and Development in International Ape Conservation Discourse -- NORTH AMERICA -- Narrative Currency in a Changing Climate: Grounding the Arctic amid Shifting Terrain -- Wild Madness: The Makah Whale Hunt and Its Aftermath -- Bad Seed: Imperiled Biological and Social Diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation -- SOUTH AMERICA &amp -- THE CARIBBEAN -- Performing Tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der Natur and the Colonial Roots of Nature Writing -- The Poetic Politics of Ecological Inhabitation in Neruda's Canto General and Cardenal's Cosmic Canticle -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: A Sea Change of Stories in Visible Silence -- Afterword: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and the Question of Literature -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Heise, Stanford University * Jonathan Highfield, Rhode Island School of Design * Alex Hunt, West Texas A&M University * Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University * Patrick D. Murphy, University of Central Florida * Bonnie Roos, West Texas A&M University * Caskey Russell, University of Wyoming * Rachel Stein, Siena College * Sabine Wilke, University of Washington * Laura Wright, Western Carolina University * Sheng-yen Yu, National Taipei University of Technology * Gang Yue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/Xiamen University.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Narratives of Survival, Sustainability, and Justice -- ASIA &amp -- THE SOUTH PACIFIC -- Arundhati Roy: Environment and Uneven Form -- Jungle Tide, Devouring Reef: (Post)colonial Anxiety and Ecocritique in Sri Lankan Literature -- Fragments of Shangri-La: "Eco-Tibet" and Its Global Circuits -- Diggers, Strangers, and Broken Men: Environmental Prophecy and the Commodifcation of Nature in Keri Hulme's The Bone People -- AFRICA -- Ravaging the Earth, Wasting Our Patrimony": Excess Hunting, Landscape Depletion, and Environmental Apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians -- Relations with Food": Agriculture, Colonialism, and Foodways in the Writing of Bessie Head -- Rhetorics of Endangerment: Cultural Difference and Development in International Ape Conservation Discourse -- NORTH AMERICA -- Narrative Currency in a Changing Climate: Grounding the Arctic amid Shifting Terrain -- Wild Madness: The Makah Whale Hunt and Its Aftermath -- Bad Seed: Imperiled Biological and Social Diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation -- SOUTH AMERICA &amp -- THE CARIBBEAN -- Performing Tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der Natur and the Colonial Roots of Nature Writing -- The Poetic Politics of Ecological Inhabitation in Neruda's Canto General and Cardenal's Cosmic Canticle -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: A Sea Change of Stories in Visible Silence -- Afterword: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and the Question of Literature -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Heise, Stanford University * Jonathan Highfield, Rhode Island School of Design * Alex Hunt, West Texas A&M University * Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University * Patrick D. Murphy, University of Central Florida * Bonnie Roos, West Texas A&M University * Caskey Russell, University of Wyoming * Rachel Stein, Siena College * Sabine Wilke, University of Washington * Laura Wright, Western Carolina University * Sheng-yen Yu, National Taipei University of Technology * Gang Yue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/Xiamen University.

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