Postcolonial green environmental politics & world narratives /
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Under the sign of nature.
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| Acceso en línea: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt
- 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
- 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
- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja
- 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
- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke
- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy
- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos
- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise
- Bibliography.