Environmental Postcolonialism

A Literary Response

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleEnvironmental Postcolonialism: A Literary Response is an academic investigation of the environmental repercussions of colonial destruction. This volume addresses the complex interplay between postcolonialism and environmental discourse through literature produced in the ex-colonies. This literature is read from the standpoint of ex-colonies within their human and non-human context. The primary objective of this volume is to scrutinize environmental concerns in the light of postcolonial theory, and so it examines works of art from the twin perspective of eco-criticism and postcolonialism which illuminates and underscores how colonizers destroyed and interfered with both nature and culture. Through discussing the intersecting layers of ecocriticism and postcolonial criticism, the volume gestures to new directions and generates a hopeful vision of a decolonized world.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-04-12
Mått154 x 223 x 18 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEcocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793634580

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Chapter 1: Introduction by Shubhanku Kochar and M. Anjum KhanChapter 2: "Transformation is the Rule of Life": Environment and the Search for Utopia in The Hungry Tide by Suzy WoltmannChapter 3: Cultural Nationalism and Sacred Groves of Kerala by Anupama NayarChapter 4: Politics, Oil and Theatre in Africa by Stephen Ogheneruro OkpadahChapter 5: Through the Postcolonial Lens: Reading the Environment in Narratives from India’s North East by Kalpana Bora BarmanChapter 6: “Aesthetics of Belonging”: Construction of a Postcolonial Landscape in Daud Kamal’s Poetry by Humaira RiazChapter 7: I am a Tree Leaning: Neo-colonialism, Eco-consciousness and the Decolonized Self in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing by Anik SarkarChapter 8: For Appearances Must Deceive: Misreading the Environment in Days and Nights in the Forest and its Cinematic Adaptation by Chinmaya Lal ThakurChapter 9: Postcolonial Ecology and Representation: Exploring ‘Ashani Sanket’ as an Eco-Film by Neepa SarkarChapter 10: Land, Labor, and Fa

To skeptics, "environmental postcolonialism" may seem like odd cognates, reflecting the desperate scramble of scholarly and scientific disciplines to appear green. Ostensibly, a prefix (environmentalism) is all it takes to do so. This collection of superb scholarship, however, rises far above this fad, arguing that ecocriticism in former colonies chronicles the ways in which colonialists robbed them of nature and culture.... The collection features 16 well-researched and well-written essays by early-career and established scholars. It encompasses environmental postcolonial scholarship from across Africa, the Americas, and Asia, and is equally diverse in its topical treatment, covering natural resources, place-based identities, gendered ecology, eco-consciousness, and capitalist predation of nature. In short, Environmental Postcolonialism makes a memorable contribution to an eponymous field, and to the literature on ecocriticism and postcolonial theory. Highly recommended.