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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWords for a Small Planet is an important book that makes connections between traditional forms of eco-criticism and emerging, non-Western settings, texts, and frameworks. Anyone who studies and writes about literature and environment in the 21st Century needs to add this book to their collection! -- Stephen P. Depoe, professor and head, Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati
Table of ContentsPreface Annie Merrill Ingram Introduction: Ecocritical Spring and Evolutionary Discourse Andrew Belyea and Nanette Norris Chapter 1: Imaginary Representations and Cultural Performances Of Ecocriticism Eduardo Barros-Grela Chapter 2: Ecological Narrative or Imperial Exploitation: What’s the “Monster” in Animal Planet’s River Monsters? Christopher Justice Chapter 3: The Representation of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Juan León Mera’s Cumandá Frederico A. Chalupa Chapter 4: Nature Versus War in Letters from the Front, 1914-1918 Sylvie Housiel Chapter 5: A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading Yomna Al-Abdulkareem Chapter 6: Nature, Women, and the Ecotext: Self-Discovery in Emily Nasrallah’s Short Stories “The Cocoon” and “The Butterfly” Iman A. Hanafy Chapter 7: Jerusalem in the poetry of Tamim El-Barghouti and Yehuda Amichai Hessa Al-Kahlan Chapter 8: Omumu Concept of Begetting: A Pro-Feminist Lesson from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Chinyere Okafor Chapter 9: The Legacy of the American War in Vietnam: Tim O’Brien’s “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” Nanette Norris Chapter 10: National Narrative as Wilderness: An Ecocritical Interpretation of Civilización y barbarie in Modern Argentine Literature Anne E. Hiller Chapter 11: Unnatural Appetites and the Case of the Cannibal in Korean Cinema Colette Balmain Chapter 12: Is ‘Eco’ Enough?: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew’s The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary Fiction Andrew Belyea
