Postcolonial Ecologies Literatures of the Environment 1st Edition by Elizabeth Deloughrey, George B Handley ISBN 0195394429 9780195394429

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Author: Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley

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, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. The scholars collected here are at the forefront of the emergent field of postcolonial ecocriticism and this book will make a remarkable contribution to rethinking the environment and its representation in the humanities.

Table of contents:

Introduction: Towards an Aesthetics of the Earth
Elizabeth DeLoughrey & George Handley
I.Cultivating Place
1.: Cultivating Community:Counterlandscaping in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Jill Didur
2.:Haiti’s Elusive Paradise
LeGrace Benson
3.:Towards a Caribbean Ecopoetics: Derek Walcott’s Language of Plants
Elaine Savory
II. Forest Fictions
4.: Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in Caribbean Literatures
Lizabeth Paravisini Gebert
5.:The Postcolonial Ecology of the New World Baroque:
Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps
George B. Handley
6.: Forest Fictions and Ecological Crises:
Reading the Politics of Survival in Mahasweta Devi’s “Dhowli”
Jennifer Wenzel
III. The Lives of (Nonhuman) Animals
7.: Stranger in the Eco-Village: Environmental Time, Race, and Ecologies of Looking
Rob Nixon
8.:What the Whales Would Tell Us: Cetacean Communication in Novels by Witi Ihimaera,Linda Hogan, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh
Jonathan Steinwand
9.: Compassion, Commodification, and The Lives of Animals: J.M. Coetzee’s Recent Fiction
Allison Carruth
IV. Militourism
11.: Heliotropes: Solar Ecologies and Pacific Radiations
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
12.: Activating Voice, Body, and Place:
Kanaka Maoli and Ma’ohi Writings for Kaho’olawe and Moruroa
Dina El Dessouky
13.: “Out of this great tragedy will come a world class tourism destination:”
Disaster, Ecology, and Post-Tsunami Tourism Development in Sri Lanka
Anthony Carrigan
14.:. In Place: Tourism, Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism, and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness
Byron Caminero-Santangelo

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