Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex |
Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
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. |
ISBN |
1-280-48993-6
9786613585165 0-8139-3065-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456888403321 |
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex |
Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
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 |
ISBN |
1-280-48993-6
9786613585165 0-8139-3065-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781647103321 |
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial green : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex |
Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
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 |
ISBN |
1-280-48993-6
9786613585165 0-8139-3065-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806178403321 |
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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