Postcolonial green
Subtitle: environmental politics and world narratives
By: edited by Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt.
Contributors: Roos, Bonnie, 1970-; Hunt, Alex.
Series: Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780813930008; 9780813930015; 9780813930657
Subjects: Commonwealth literature (English) -- 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt; title: 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; title: 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; title: Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja; title: 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; title: South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke; title: The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy; title: Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos; title: Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise; title: Bibliography.