Postcolonial Ecologies
Literatures of the Environment
Oxford University Press · Print & ebook · April 23, 2011
This is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies.
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- Who it’s for
- Essays connect postcolonial literatures across regions with changing ideas about humans and nature.
- Genres
- Nature in Literature, Colonialism & Its Aftermath, Ecology
- Published
- Oxford University Press, April 23, 2011
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This is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and nature, this book makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis.
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Turning to the contemporary production of postcolonial novelists and poets, this collection poses the literary imagination as a crucial to imagining what Eduoard Glissant calls the "aesthetics of the earth." The collection is organized around thematic concerns such as the relationship between culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. The scholars collected here are at the forefront of the emergent field of postcolonial ecocriticism and this book will make a remarkable contribution to rethinking the environment and its representation in the humanities.
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Essays connect postcolonial literatures across regions with changing ideas about humans and nature.
Come here for
- African, Caribbean, Pacific Island, and South Asian literatures
- Literary depictions of relationships between humans and nature
Expect
- Culture and cultivation; arboriculture and deforestation
- Animals; the military and the tourist industry
Where it sits
| Nature in Literature | 66% |
|---|---|
| Colonialism & Its Aftermath | 44% |
| Ecology | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- African Lit Crit
- Authors
- Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley, George Handley
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- April 23, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- African Lit Crit