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The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment

Beschreibung

The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment takes a broad, global overview of the history, present, and potential futures of environmental and literary studies, demonstrating that world-literature is itself a world-ecological force. Over 36 chapters the collection moves from early modern imperial activity through to the contemporary climate emergency. The book is organised into seven thematic sections: Commodity Frontiers and Extraction; Fossil Fuel Energetics; Food and Land; Oceans, Fresh Water and Hydropolitics; Disease, Toxicity and Social Reproduction; Emergencies, Wars and Disasters; and Apocalypse and Insurgency. With coverage stretching across Europe, the Americas, Australasia, the Indian subcontinent and East Asia, the Companion takes a multilingual approach, appearing in English yet also tackling texts originally written in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as texts containing translated elements of Indigenous languages. Chapters examine multiple genres, modes and media, including novels, short stories, poetry, drama, graphic narratives, nonfiction prose, and oral literature. Weaving together eco-materialist approaches to the aesthetic registration of humanity-in-nature, the environmental history of capitalism, and world-literary methods of comparativism, this Companion acts as a large-scale guide for new readers and researchers interested in postcolonial studies, global or world-literature, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. At the same time, it provides an interventionist account of innovative methodological priorities and areas of topical focus for advanced scholars.

Autor

Treasa De Loughry is Assistant Professor in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is author of The Global Novel and Capitalism-in-Crisis: Contemporary Literary Narratives (2020) and co-editor of the special issue of CLC: Comparative Literature and Culture on "Periodizing the Present: The 2020s, The Longue Durée, and Contemporary Culture" (with Brittany Murray, 2021). Sharae Deckard is Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama, Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is author of Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalization: Exploiting Eden (2010), co-author of Tracking Capital: World-Systems, World-Ecology, and World-Culture (with Michael Niblett and Stephen Shapiro; 2024), and editor of the Green Letters special issue "Global and Postcolonial Ecologies" (2012). Kerstin Oloff is Associate Professor of Hispanic Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous (2023), and co-editor of Perspectives on the Other America: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture (with Michael Niblett; 2009) and Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology and the Global Food System (with Chris Campbell and Michael Niblett; 2021). Claire Westall is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. She is author of The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature (2021), co-author of The Public on the Public: The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure (with Michael Gardiner; 2014), and co-editor of Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice (with Michelle Kelly; 2021).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 638
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032010151
• ISBN-10: 1032010150
• Artikelnr.: 76041491