Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt
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| Titolo: |
Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/36 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Postcolonial green |
| ISBN: | 1-280-48993-6 |
| 9786613585165 | |
| 0-8139-3065-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456888403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Under the sign of nature.