| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
environmental politics & world narratives |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
HuntAlex, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
RoosBonnie, 1970- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Charlottesville |
| Published: |
University of Virginia Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 301 p.). |
| Series: |
Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
| Subject: |
Ecocriticism - |
| Subject: |
Globalization - Environmental aspects - |
| Subject: |
Imperialism - Environmental aspects - |
| Subject: |
Environmentalism in literature - |
| Subject: |
Environmental justice in literature - |
| Subject: |
Postcolonialism in literature - |
| Subject: |
Colonies in literature - |
| Subject: |
Ecology in literature - |
| Subject: |
Human ecology in literature - |
| Subject: |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813930657/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780813930657electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0813930650electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813930008hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0813930006hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813930015pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0813930014pbk. |
| Content Note: |
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 huntand 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 KHeise-- Bibliography |