简介
The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial writers, the diverse contributions highlight the literary imagination as crucial to representing what Eduoard Glissant calls the "aesthetics of the earth." The essays are organized around a group of thematic concerns that engage culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. With chapters that address works by J. M. Coetzee, Kiran Desai, Derek Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, Zakes Mda, and many others, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a remarkable contribution to rethinking the role of the humanities in addressing global environmental issues.
目录
Contributors p. vii
Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of the Earth Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Hundley p. 3
Part I Cultivating Place
1 Cultivating Community: Counterlandscaping in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss Jill Didur p. 43
2 Haiti's Elusive Paradise LeGrace Benson p. 62
3 Toward a Caribbean Ecopoetics: Derek Walcott's Language of Plants Elaine Savory p. 80
Part II Forest Fictions
4 Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in Caribbean Literatures Elizabeth Paravisini-Gebert p. 99
5 The Postcolonial Ecology of the New World Baroque: Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps George B. Handley p. 117
6 Forest Fictions and Ecological Crises: Reading the Politics of Survival in Mahasweta Devi's "Dhowli" Jennifer Wenzel p. 136
Part III The Lives Of (Nonhuman) Animals
7 Stranger in the Eco-Village: Environmental Time, Race, and Ecologies of Looking Rob Nixon p. 159
8 What the Whales Would Tell Us: Cetacean Communication in Novels by Witi Ihimaera, Linda Hogan, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh Jonathan Steinwand p. 182
9 Compassion, Commodification, and The Lives of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Recent Fiction Allison Carruth p. 200
10 "Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us": Toxic Postcoloniality in Animal's People Pablo Mukherjee p. 216
Part IV Militourism
11 Heliotropes: Solar Ecologies and Pacific Radiations Elizabeth DeLoughrey p. 235
12 Activating Voice, Body, and Place: Kanaka Maoli and Ma'ohi Writings for Kaho'olawe and Moruroa Dina El Dessouky p. 254
13 "Out of This Great Tragedy Will Come a World Class Tourism Destination": Disaster, Ecology, and Post-Tsunami Tourism Development in Sri Lanka Anthony Carrigan p. 273
14 In Place: Tourism, Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism, and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness Byron Caminero-Santangelo p. 291
Works Cited p. 309
Index p. 337
Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of the Earth Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Hundley p. 3
Part I Cultivating Place
1 Cultivating Community: Counterlandscaping in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss Jill Didur p. 43
2 Haiti's Elusive Paradise LeGrace Benson p. 62
3 Toward a Caribbean Ecopoetics: Derek Walcott's Language of Plants Elaine Savory p. 80
Part II Forest Fictions
4 Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in Caribbean Literatures Elizabeth Paravisini-Gebert p. 99
5 The Postcolonial Ecology of the New World Baroque: Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps George B. Handley p. 117
6 Forest Fictions and Ecological Crises: Reading the Politics of Survival in Mahasweta Devi's "Dhowli" Jennifer Wenzel p. 136
Part III The Lives Of (Nonhuman) Animals
7 Stranger in the Eco-Village: Environmental Time, Race, and Ecologies of Looking Rob Nixon p. 159
8 What the Whales Would Tell Us: Cetacean Communication in Novels by Witi Ihimaera, Linda Hogan, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh Jonathan Steinwand p. 182
9 Compassion, Commodification, and The Lives of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Recent Fiction Allison Carruth p. 200
10 "Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us": Toxic Postcoloniality in Animal's People Pablo Mukherjee p. 216
Part IV Militourism
11 Heliotropes: Solar Ecologies and Pacific Radiations Elizabeth DeLoughrey p. 235
12 Activating Voice, Body, and Place: Kanaka Maoli and Ma'ohi Writings for Kaho'olawe and Moruroa Dina El Dessouky p. 254
13 "Out of This Great Tragedy Will Come a World Class Tourism Destination": Disaster, Ecology, and Post-Tsunami Tourism Development in Sri Lanka Anthony Carrigan p. 273
14 In Place: Tourism, Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism, and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness Byron Caminero-Santangelo p. 291
Works Cited p. 309
Index p. 337
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