Postcolonial green : environmental politics & world narratives / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt.
| Other author | Roos, Bonnie, 1970- |
| Other author | Hunt, Alex. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010. |
| Description | xi, 301 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism Under the sign of nature. ^A486502 |
| Contents | 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 -- |
| Contents | 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010002151 |
| ISBN | 9780813930008 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813930006 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813930015 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813930014 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813930657 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0813930650 (e-book) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR9080.5 .P69 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |