Ecocriticism of the Global South.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Environmentalism of The Hungry Tide -- 2 "The Land Was Wounded": War Ecologies, Commodity Frontiers, and Sri Lankan Literature -- 3 Scenes from the Global South in China: Zheng Xiaoqiong's Poetic Agency for Labor and Environmental Justice -- 4 Literary Isomorphism and the Malayan and Caribbean Archipelagos -- 5 Wai tangi, Waters of Grief, wai ora, Waters of Life: Rivers, Reports, and Reconciliation in Aotearoa New Zealand -- 6 Fish, Coconuts, and Ocean People: Nuclear Violations of Oceania's "Earthly Design" -- 7 Intimate Kinships: Who Speaks for Nature and Who Listens When Nature Speaks for Herself? -- 8 Redefining Modernity in Latin American Fiction: Toward Ecological Consciousness in La loca de Gandoca and Lo que soñó Sebastian -- 9 Northern Ireland ↔ Global South -- 10 "Decline and Fall": Empire, Land, and the Twentieth-Century Irish "Big House" Novel -- 11 Landscape and Animal Tragedy in Nsahlai Nsambu Athanasius's The Buffalo Rider: Ecocritical Perspectives, the Cameroon Experiment -- 12 Ecocriticism beyond Animist Intimations in Things Fall Apart -- 13 Ecocriticism, Globalized Cities, and African Narrative, with a Focus on K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents -- 14 Environmental and Cultural Entropy in Bozorg Alavi's "Gilemard" -- 15 Environmental Consciousness in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Using the rubric of the "Global South," this volume allows scholars from underrepresented regions to offer commentary on the ecological conditions and environmental cultures in the developing world.

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