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Book SynopsisThis 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 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
Trade Reviewa vital contribution to postcolonial ecocriticism. * Sharae Deckard, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: TOWARDS AN AESTHETICS OF THE EARTH; ELIZABETH DELOUGHREY & GEORGE HANDLEY; I.CULTIVATING PLACE; JILL DIDUR; LEGRACE BENSON; ELAINE SAVORY; II. FOREST FICTIONS; LIZABETH PARAVISINI GEBERT; ALEJO CARPENTIER'S THE LOST STEPS; GEORGE B. HANDLEY; READING THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL IN MAHASWETA DEVI'S "DHOWLI"; JENNIFER WENZEL; III. THE LIVES OF (NONHUMAN) ANIMALS; ROB NIXON; JONATHAN STEINWAND; ALLISON CARRUTH; PABLO MUKHERJEE; IV. MILITOURISM; ELIZABETH DELOUGHREY; KANAKA MAOLI AND MA'OHI WRITINGS FOR KAHO'OLAWE AND MORUROA; DINA EL DESSOUKY; DISASTER, ECOLOGY, AND POST-TSUNAMI TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SRI LANKA; ANTHONY CARRIGAN; BYRON CAMINERO-SANTANGELO
