Ecocriticism of the Global South

Vidya Sarveswaran is assistant professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. Scott Slovic edits the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, andis professor and chair of the English Department at the University of Idaho.Swarnalatha Rangarajan is associate professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1.Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, Introduction2.Priya Kumar, The Environmentalism of The Hungry Tide3.Sharae Deckard, “The Land Was Wounded”: War Ecologies, Commodity Frontiers, and Sri Lankan Literature4.Zhou Xiaojing, Scenes from the Global South in China: Zheng Xiaoqiong’s Poetic Agency for Labor and Environmental Justice5.Christopher Lloyd de Shield, Literary Isomorphism and the Malayan and Caribbean Archipelagos6.Charles Dawson, Wai tangi, Waters of Grief, wai ora, Waters of Life: Rivers, Reports and Reconciliation in Aotearoa New Zealand7.Dina El Dessouky, Fish, Coconuts, and Ocean People: Nuclear Violations of Oceania’s “Earthly Design”8.Benay Blend, Intimate Kinships: Who Speaks for Nature and Who Listens When Nature Speaks for Herself?9.Adrian Kane, Redefining Modernity in Latin American Fiction: Toward Ecological Consciousness in La loca de Gandoca and Lo que soñó Sebastian10.James McElroy, Northern Ireland ? Global S

Ecocriticism of the Global South is a rare and much needed achievement in ecocriticism. It speaks from geographical and political contexts—giving it unprecedented planetary reach. In this process, it both extends and transforms the significance of the ecocritical project as a world phenomenon.