04420nam 2200817 a 450 991045688840332120200520144314.01-280-48993-697866135851650-8139-3065-0(CKB)2550000000047942(EBL)3443980(SSID)ssj0000566551(PQKBManifestationID)11377522(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000566551(PQKBWorkID)10549378(PQKB)10254218(MiAaPQ)EBC3443980(OCoLC)755621586(MdBmJHUP)muse4001(Au-PeEL)EBL3443980(CaPaEBR)ebr10495612(CaONFJC)MIL358516(EXLCZ)99255000000004794220100122d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostcolonial green[electronic resource] environmental politics & world narratives /edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex HuntCharlottesville University of Virginia Press20101 online resource (320 p.)Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticismDescription based upon print version of record.0-8139-3001-4 0-8139-3000-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Under the sign of nature.Commonwealth literature (English)History and criticismHuman ecology in literatureEcology in literatureColonies in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureEnvironmental justice in literatureEnvironmentalism in literatureImperialismEnvironmental aspectsGlobalizationEnvironmental aspectsEcocriticismElectronic books.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.ImperialismEnvironmental aspects.GlobalizationEnvironmental aspects.Ecocriticism.820.9/36Roos Bonnie1970-1039676Hunt Alex1039677MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456888403321Postcolonial green2462018UNINA