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UNINA9910806178403321 |
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Titolo |
Postcolonial green : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-48993-6 |
9786613585165 |
0-8139-3065-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Collana |
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Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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RoosBonnie <1970-> |
HuntAlex |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism |
Human ecology in literature |
Ecology in literature |
Colonies in literature |
Postcolonialism in literature |
Environmental justice in literature |
Environmentalism in literature |
Imperialism - Environmental aspects |
Globalization - Environmental aspects |
Ecocriticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Heise, Stanford University * Jonathan Highfield, Rhode Island School of Design * Alex Hunt, West Texas A&M University * Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University * Patrick D. Murphy, University of Central Florida * Bonnie Roos, West Texas A&M University * Caskey Russell, University of Wyoming * Rachel Stein, Siena College * Sabine Wilke, University of Washington * Laura Wright, Western Carolina University * Sheng-yen Yu, National Taipei University of Technology * Gang Yue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/Xiamen University. |
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