Postcolonial green environmental politics & world narratives / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt.
| Other author | Roos, Bonnie, 1970- |
| Other author | Hunt, Alex. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, |
| Description | xi, 301 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from UPCC Books Political Science and Policy Studies 2010 Subject Collection |
| Subjects |
| Series | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
| 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 -- 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010002151 |
| ISBN | 9780813930008 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813930006 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813930015 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813930014 (pbk. : alk. paper) |