Postcolonial Ecologies

Literatures of the Environment
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-539443-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

This is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and nature, this book makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis. Turning to the contemporary production of postcolonial novelists and poets, this collection poses the literary imagination as a crucial to imagining what Eduoard Glissant calls the "aesthetics of the earth." The collection is organized around thematic concerns such as the relationship between culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. The scholars collected here are at the forefront of the emergent field of postcolonial ecocriticism and this book will make a remarkable contribution to rethinking the environment and its representation in the humanities.

Zielgruppe

Readers of PMLA, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, ISLE, Comparative Literature, Callaloo; students and professors with an interest in ecocriticism, the postcolonial, and Caribbean literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deloughrey, Elizabeth

Handley, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Towards an Aesthetics of the Earth
Elizabeth DeLoughrey & 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

Über Autor(innen)

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).