Postcolonial Ecologies

Zusatztext a vital contribution to postcolonial ecocriticism. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth DeLoughrey is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UCLA. With George Handley and Renée Gosson, she is the co-editor of Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (U Virginia 2005) and with Cara Cilano, she has edited a special issue of the journal Isle on postcolonial ecocriticism (2007). She has published articles about postcolonial literature in journals such as Ariel, Interventions, Modern Fiction Studies, and PMLA. She is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures (U Hawai`i 2007) and currently completing a manuscript about globalization, nature, and the tropics.George B. Handley, Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University, is the author of Postslavery Literatures of the Americas (Virginia 2000) and New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (Georgia 2007). Klappentext This is the first collection to bring environmental issues into a dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and nature, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis. Zusammenfassung This is the first collection to bring environmental issues into a dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and nature, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis.

a vital contribution to postcolonial ecocriticism.

Autorentext
Elizabeth DeLoughrey is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UCLA. With George Handley and Renée Gosson, she is the co-editor of Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (U Virginia 2005) and with Cara Cilano, she has edited a special issue of the journal Isle on postcolonial ecocriticism (2007). She has published articles about postcolonial literature in journals such as Ariel, Interventions, Modern Fiction Studies, and PMLA. She is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures (U Hawai`i 2007) and currently completing a manuscript about globalization, nature, and the tropics. George B. Handley, Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University, is the author of Postslavery Literatures of the Americas (Virginia 2000) and New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (Georgia 2007).

Klappentext
This is the first collection to bring environmental issues into a dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and nature, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis.

Inhalt
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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