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Author:   Sushila Shekhawat ,  Rayson K. Alex ,  Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.650kg
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9781032249254

ISBN 10:   1032249250
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   29 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction Sushila Shekhawat, Rayson K.Alex and Swarnalatha Rangarajan Chapter 1 Topologies of Nihilism: Anthropocene Imaginaries and the Figure of the Desert Aidan Tynan Chapter 2 Inheriting Isotopes: The Androcene and the End of Nature in the Great Victoria Desert A-Bomb Test Sites CA. Cranston Chapter 3 Old Green Deserts and New Brown Pools: Post-colonization, Neo-colonization, and Decolonization Iris Ralph Chapter 4 Slow Violence and the Desert Ecology: Re-Reading Terra Nullius in Hergé’s Arab World Nilanjana Chatterjee, Anindita Chatterjee, and Boijayanto Mukherjee Chapter 5 Environmental and Cultural Disequilibriums in Southeast Asian Literature Chitra Sankaran Chapter 6 This Land Shouldn’t Be a Desert: The Collapse of Western Civilization in 18th Century ""California"" Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí Chapter 7 Graciliano Ramos and Bessie Head: Political and Affective Dimensions of Two Different Deserts Izabel F. O. Brandão Chapter 8 Songs of Longing: Love Narratives and the Geographical Imaginaries of the Thar Desert Tanuja Kothiyal Chapter 9 Palai (Arid and Semi-Arid) Landscapes in Early Tamil Literature and History of South India V. Selvakumar Chapter 10 Under Another Sky: A Triptych in the Thar Desert Vidya Sarveswaran Chapter 11 A Different Story in the Anthropocene: ""Ecological Migrants"" Greening Deserts in China Zhou Xiaojing Chapter 12 Tibet: A New Shambala for Posthumanist Imagination Gang Yue Chapter 13 Overcoming the Nature/Culture Divide: What can we learn from Aboriginal culture in the Anthropocene? Roslynn Haynes Chapter 14 The Sustainable Way of Life of the Bedouin Gone Sharif Elmusa"

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Sushila Shekhawat (Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani; Areas of Expertise: Film and Media Studies) is Associate Professor at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus. She has 23 journal essays, 13 book chapters and one edited volume to her credit. Rayson K. Alex (Ph.D. from Madras Christian College, University of Madras; Areas of Expertise: Ecocriticism) is Associate Professor at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus. He has 11 journal essays, 22 book chapters and 6 edited books to his credit. He is the founder and co-director of tiNai Ecofilm Festival. Swarnalatha Rangarajan (Ph.D. from University of Madras; Areas of Expertise: Ecocriticism and American Literature) is Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She has published 24 journal essays, 11 book chapters and 7 edited books, a novel and a monograph.

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