"Wilderness into civilized shapes"
Subtitle: reading the postcolonial environment
By: Laura Wright.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820333960; 9780820335681
Subjects: Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism; Colonies in literature; Ecology in literature; Imperialism -- Environmental aspects; Globalization -- Environmental aspects; Ecocriticism; Africa -- In literature; India -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: imagining the postcolonial environment; title: Inventing tradition and colonizing the plants: Ngugi Wa Thoing'o's Petals of blood and Zakes Mda's Heart of redness; title: Safari, zoo, and dog pound: vegetarianism, extinction, and the place of animals in the postcolonial environment; title: "Swimming in the river of life" but caught in "the stream of justice": India's water woes and Arundhati Roy; title: Prophecy, motherhood, and the land: an exploration of postcolonial ecofeminism; title: Conclusion: writing and theorizing the environmental interregnum.