ISBN:
9780813930008
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9780813930015
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0813930006
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0813930014
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 301 S.
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24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Under the sign of nature
Series Statement:
explorations in ecocriticism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Postcolonial green
DDC:
820.9/36
Keywords:
Commonwealth literature (English) History and criticism
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Human ecology in literature
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Ecology in literature
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Colonies in literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Environmental justice in literature
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Environmentalism in literature
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Imperialism Environmental aspects
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Globalization Environmental aspects
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Ecocriticism
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Commonwealth literature (English)
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History and criticism
;
Human ecology in literature
;
Ecology in literature
;
Colonies in literature
;
Postcolonialism in literature
;
Environmental justice in literature
;
Environmentalism in literature
;
Imperialism
;
Environmental aspects
;
Globalization
;
Environmental aspects
;
Ecocriticism
;
Englisch
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Literatur
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Humanökologie
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Postkolonialismus
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Umweltschutz
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Humanökologie
;
Umweltschutz
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Ecocriticism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu; "Relations with food": agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield -- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja -- North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke -- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos -- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography
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Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice
,
Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form
,
Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians
,
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
,
South America and 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.
