Introduction: Towards an Aesthetics of the Earth
Elizabeth DeLoughrey & George Handley
I.Cultivating Place
Chapter 1 Cultivating Community:Counterlandscaping in Kiran Desai's
The Inheritance of Loss
Jill Didur
Chapter 2 Haiti's Elusive Paradise
LeGrace Benson
Chapter 3 Towards a Caribbean Ecopoetics: Derek Walcott's Language
of Plants
Elaine Savory
II. Forest Fictions
Chapter 4 Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in
Caribbean Literatures
Lizabeth Paravisini Gebert
Chapter 5 The Postcolonial Ecology of the New World Baroque:
Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps
George B. Handley
Chapter 6 Forest Fictions and Ecological Crises:
Reading the Politics of Survival in Mahasweta Devi's "Dhowli"
Jennifer Wenzel
III. The Lives of (Nonhuman) Animals
Chapter 7. Stranger in the Eco-Village: Environmental Time, Race,
and Ecologies of Looking
Rob Nixon
Chapter 8. What the Whales Would Tell Us: Cetacean Communication in
Novels by Witi Ihimaera,Linda Hogan, Zakes Mda, and Amitav
Ghosh
Jonathan Steinwand
Chapter 9. Compassion, Commodification, and The Lives of Animals:
J.M. Coetzee's Recent Fiction
Allison Carruth
Chapter 10. "Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us:" Toxic
Postcoloniality in Animal's People
Pablo Mukherjee
IV. Militourism
Chapter 11. Heliotropes: Solar Ecologies and Pacific Radiations
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Chapter 12. Activating Voice, Body, and Place:
Kanaka Maoli and Ma'ohi Writings for Kaho'olawe and Moruroa
Dina El Dessouky
Chapter 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
Chapter 14. In Place: Tourism, Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism, and
Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness
Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Elizabeth DeLoughrey is Associate Professor of English at the
University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Routes
and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures and
a coeditor of Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between
Nature and Culture.
George B. Handley, Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young
University, is the author of Postslavery Literatures of the
Americas and New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination
of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott.
"[An] impressive achievement." --American Book Review
"The body of works under consideration in these essays is capacious
and diverse...But in its best moments, this collection also engages
with physical (contested) spaces and historical trends and events,
revealing the social and geographic conditions for the production
of literature and literary culture...An essential critique."
--Small Axe
"This is a cutting edge work that not only situates ecology and
biopolitics firmly at the center of postcolonial studies, but also
shows the importance of postcolonial literatures to global debates
on climate change and environmental degradation. A superb
collection!" --Bill Ashcroft, author of Caliban's Voice: The
Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures
"Postcolonial Ecologies, with its outstanding roster of
contributors, is a crucial intervention in the internationalisation
of ecocriticism and the greening of postcolonialism. Framed by
DeLoughrey and Handley's well-informed and lucid introduction, this
diverse and formidable collection clarifies the inseparability of
environmental issues from neo-colonial relations." --Greg Garrard,
author of Ecocriticism
"By now, postcolonialists know that empire ruined landscapes and
distorted human connections to nature. This book asks how writers
try to undo the thinking that underpinned it all and how critics
can point towards something more than reactive protest od misguided
celebrations of organic links between the folk and nature...the
book succeeds in directing us to some answers." --Journal of
Postcolonial Writing
"An important landmark in the expanding field of postcolonial
ecocriticism...this collection makes a vital contribution to
postcolonial ecocriticism, negotiating crucial debates in the field
and generating new categories of analysis that should enliven both
postcolonial
and ecocritical studies." --Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature
and Environment
"A powerful collection of original work that adds to established
discussions within ecocritical discourse and pushes postcolonial
and ecocritical scholarship toward new topics of crucial importance
to global environmental awareness and response. It offers a smart,
diverse, and rich contemplation of the role of postcolonial
literatures within a global
environmental imagination and politics and clearly points to the
possibility of dialogue between ecocritical thought and
postcolonial writing. Better yet, it does this while maintaining a
wide generic, geographic, theoretical, and historical scope. This
book no doubt will make a welcome addition to the shelves of many
literary and environmental scholars." --Comparative Literature
Studies
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