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Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment
Elizabet Deloughrey
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Description for Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment
Paperback. Editor(s): DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.; Handley, George. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSBH5; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
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. 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 ... Read more
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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
566g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195394436
SKU
V9780195394436
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99-1
About Elizabet Deloughrey
Elizabeth DeLoughrey is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UCLA. With George Handley and Renee Gosson, she is the co-editor of Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (U Virginia 2005) and with Cara Cilano, she has edited a special issue of the journal Isle on postcolonial ecocriticism (2007). She has published articles about postcolonial literature ... Read more
Reviews for Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment
a vital contribution to postcolonial ecocriticism.
Sharae Deckard, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Sharae Deckard, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment