Postcolonial Ecologies (eBook, PDF)

Literatures of the Environment
Redaktion: Deloughrey, Elizabeth; Handley, George B.

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Produktbeschreibung

The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial writers, the diverse contributions highlight the literary imagination as crucial to representing what Eduoard Glissant calls the "aesthetics of the earth." The essays are organized around a group of thematic concerns that engage culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. With chapters that address works by J. M. Coetzee, Kiran Desai, Derek Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, Zakes Mda, and many others, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a remarkable contribution to rethinking the role of the humanities in addressing global environmental issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199742561
• Artikelnr.: 38131724

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Towards an Aesthetics of the Earth
* Elizabeth DeLoughrey and 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
* 10.: "Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us:" Toxic Postcoloniality in
Animal's People
* Pablo Mukherjee
* 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