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"The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial writers, the diverse contributions highlight the literary imagination as crucial to representing what Eduoard Glissant calls the ""aesthetics of the earth."" The essays are organized around a group of thematic concerns that engage culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. With chapters that address works by J. M. Coetzee, Kiran Desai, Derek Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, Zakes Mda, and many others, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a remarkable contribution to rethinking the role of the humanities in addressing global environmental issues."

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Author:   Elizabeth DeLoughrey (Associate Professor Humanities, Associate Professor Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles) ,  George Handley (Professor of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Professor of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780195394436

ISBN 10:   0195394437
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   12 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Towards an Aesthetics of the Earth Elizabeth DeLoughrey & George Handley I.Cultivating Place Chapter 1 Cultivating Community:Counterlandscaping in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss Jill Didur Chapter 2 Haiti's Elusive Paradise LeGrace Benson Chapter 3 Towards a Caribbean Ecopoetics: Derek Walcott's Language of Plants Elaine Savory II. Forest Fictions Chapter 4 Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in Caribbean Literatures Lizabeth Paravisini Gebert Chapter 5 The Postcolonial Ecology of the New World Baroque: Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps George B. Handley Chapter 6 Forest Fictions and Ecological Crises: Reading the Politics of Survival in Mahasweta Devi's ""Dhowli"" Jennifer Wenzel III. The Lives of (Nonhuman) Animals Chapter 7. Stranger in the Eco-Village: Environmental Time, Race, and Ecologies of Looking Rob Nixon Chapter 8. What the Whales Would Tell Us: Cetacean Communication in Novels by Witi Ihimaera,Linda Hogan, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh Jonathan Steinwand Chapter 9. Compassion, Commodification, and The Lives of Animals: J.M. Coetzee's Recent Fiction Allison Carruth Chapter 10. ""Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us:"" Toxic Postcoloniality in Animal's People Pablo Mukherjee IV. Militourism Chapter 11. Heliotropes: Solar Ecologies and Pacific Radiations Elizabeth DeLoughrey Chapter 12. Activating Voice, Body, and Place: Kanaka Maoli and Ma'ohi Writings for Kaho'olawe and Moruroa Dina El Dessouky Chapter 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 Chapter 14. In Place: Tourism, Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism, and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness Byron Caminero-Santangelo"

Reviews

<br> The body of works under consideration in these essays is capacious and diverse...But in its best moments, this collection also engages with physical (contested) spaces and historical trends and events, revealing the social and geographic conditions for the production of literature and literary culture...An essential critique. --Small Axe<p><br> This is a cutting edge work that not only situates ecology and biopolitics firmly at the center of postcolonial studies, but also shows the importance of postcolonial literatures to global debates on climate change and environmental degradation. A superb collection! --Bill Ashcroft, author of Caliban's Voice: The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures<p><br> Postcolonial Ecologies, with its outstanding roster of contributors, is a crucial intervention in the internationalisation of ecocriticism and the greening of postcolonialism. Framed by DeLoughrey and Handley's well-informed and lucid introduction, this diverse and for

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Elizabeth DeLoughrey is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures and a coeditor of Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture. George B. Handley, Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University, is the author of Postslavery Literatures of the Americas and New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott.

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