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Author:   Laurenz Volkmann ,  Nancy Grimm ,  Ines Detmers ,  Katrin Thomson
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   121/15
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.772kg
ISBN:  

9789042028128

ISBN 10:   9042028122
Pages:   388
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Local Natures, Global Responsibilities: An Introduction (Re)Framing Ecocriticism(s): Topics, Theories and Transnational Tendencies Vernon Gras: Dialogism as a Solution for the Present Obstacles to an Ecological Culture Derek Barker: Green Fields: Ecocriticism in South Africa Serenella Iovino: Ecocriticism and a Non-Anthropocentric Humanism: Reflections on Local Natures and Global Responsibilities Alex Shishin: Utopian Ecology: Technology and Social Organization in Relation to Nature and Freedom Emplotments of and Complots Against the Ecosystem Jens Martin Gurr: Emplotting an Ecosystem: Amitav Gosh’s The Hungry Tide and the Question of Form in Ecocriticism Nishi Pulugurtha: Refugees, Settlers and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Sissy Helff: Sea of Transformation: Re-Writing Australianness in the Light of Whaling Kylie Crane: Tracking the Tassie Tiger: Extinction and Ethics in Julia Leigh’s The Hunter Claudia Duppé: Asset or Home? Ecopolitical Ethics in Patricia Grace’s Potiki Anke Uebel: Imaginary Restraints: Michael Crummey’s River Thieves and the Beothuk of Newfoundland (De)Colonized Nature(s) Astrid Feldbrügge: The Human and the Non-Human World in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness and The Whale Caller Marion Fries–Dieckmann: “Castaways in the Very Heart of the City”: Island and Metropolis in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe Michael Mayer: When Trees Become Kings: Nature as a Decolonizing Force in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Silke Stroh: Towards a Postcolonial Environment? Nature, ‘Native’, and Nation in Scottish Representations of the Oil Industry (Re)Framing Ecological Disasters Mark A. McCutcheon: The Medium is ... the Monster? Global Aftermathematics in Canadian Articulations of Frankenstein Greg Garrard: Reading as an Animal: Ecocriticism and Darwinism in Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan Giuseppina Botta: Faustian Dreams and Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake Ingrid–Charlotte Wolter: Science as Deconstruction of Natural Identity: Arthur Conan Doyle’s “When the World Screamed” and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake Nils Zumbansen and Marcel Fromme: Ecocatastrophes in Recent American (Non-)Fictional Texts and Films Nicole Schröder: Framing Disaster: Images of Nature, Media, and Representational Strategies in Hollywood Disaster Movies (Re)Negotiating Eth(n)ic Spaces Sawako Taniyama: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Ice Palace”: Climate, Culture, and Stereotypes Susanne Gruss: Sex and the City?: Ecofeminism and the Urban Experience in Angela Carter, Anne Enright and Bernardine Evaristo Florian Niedlich: Travel as Transgression: Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom, J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K, and Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album Ines Detmers: Global Minds and Local Mentalities: ‘Topographies of Terror’ in Salman Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown Notes on Contributors

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