04964nam 2200829 a 450 991080617840332120240418044645.01-280-48993-697866135851650-8139-3065-0(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 Hunt1st ed.Charlottesville 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.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.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 aspectsEcocriticismCommonwealth 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 Bonnie1970-1681221Hunt Alex1681222MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806178403321Postcolonial green4050507UNINA