Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics

Krishanu Maiti teaches English language and literature at Panskura Banamali College, Vidyasagar University.Soumyadeep Chakraborty teaches English language and literature at Raja N.L. Khan Women’s College, Vidyasagar University.

• AcknowledgmentsForeword -Scott Slovic Critiquing the Green Studies: Introductory Thoughts -Krishanu Maiti and Soumyadeep Chakraborty (Editors) Part- I: The Anthropocene, Sustainability and Policy 1. Eco-criticism in a Changing Policy Landscape -Frederick Gordon 2. Learning to think in the Anthropocene: What can Deleuze-Guattari teach us? -David R. Cole 3. Solar Power in the Anthropocene: Narrative and its Discontents -Susan Haris Part- II: Ecological Aesthetics and Intermediality 4. The Plasto(s)cene: Ecographics in Rachel Hope Allison’s I’m Not a Plastic Bag-Pramod K. Nayar 5. Ted Hughes, Ecology and the Arts -Ann Skea 6. Representation in Media Texts: Shaping Contemporary Perceptions of the Anthropogenic Climate Change in Documentaries -Asmae Ourkiya 7. Defeating the Charges of Denialism: Confronting the Climate Change Crisis in Nila Madhab Panda’s Kadvi Hawa-Sk Tarik Ali 8. Aesthetics vs. Functionality of Ecodesign: Exploring Sustainable Architectural Models Based on Ecological and Bioclimatic Design Principles -Stephen Poon 9. “Imag(e)ining” along a Himalayan Trekking Trail -Apratim Kundu Part- III: Imagining Nature, Writing Ecology 10. Language Ecology in the Mythic Narrative of Easterine Kire’s Son of the Thundercloud-Shruti Das 11. E. M. Forster’s Bioregional Sense of Place: “Only Connect…” -Gulsah Gocmen 12. Salvaging Nature from Ruins of Development in Mamang Dai’s Poetry -Neeraj Sankhyan and Suman Sigroha 13. Re-membering the Coyolxauhqui: Conocimiento as Environmental activism in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God and Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus. -Lakshmi Chithra and Swarnalatha Rangarajan 14. The Panchavati and the Green Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna -Debdas Roy Part- IV: Woman, Nature and Culture 15. Malignancy of Goneril: Nature’s Powerful Warrior -Nicole Dittmer 16. Escape to Nature in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho-Shelby Heathcoat 17. The Realms of the ‘Natural’ and the ‘Female’: A study of Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown-Raktima Bhuyan and Hemanga Dutta Part- V: Multispecies / Interspecies Relationalities 18. Towards Literary Ethnobotany: Burmese Poetry and Biocultural Knowledge of Plants -John Charles Ryan 19. Preventing Invasion: Stopping the Spread of Quagga Mussels to Bear Lake -Chelsea Adams 20. “You Will See What It Is to Be a King”: The Power of a Fish in The Sword in the Stone-Justine Breton 21. Silent Translators: The Role of the Animal as a Mediator in Medieval Human Relationships -Heather DailAbout the Contributors

Echoing Walt Whitman, I suggested many years ago that ecocriticism was 'large and it contain[ed] multitudes.' Well, the field continues to grow and now contains multitudes of ideas, texts, and vocabularies my colleagues and I never imagined when we worked to establish the field. Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique is diverse and rich in so many ways—culturally, disciplinarily, and even in the varying degrees of aesthetic adventurousness and ethical urgency described by the contributors. This collection showcases the true vibrancy of contemporary work in the environmental humanities.