Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System

Chris Campbell is Senior Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the co-editor of What is the Earthly Paradise? Ecocritical Responses to the Caribbean (2007) and The Caribbean: Aesthetics, World-Ecology, Politics (2016). Michael Niblett is Associate Professor in Modern World Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. His previous books include World Literature and Ecology: The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890–1950 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) and The Caribbean Novel since 1945 (2012).Kerstin Oloff is Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham, UK. She writes on Caribbean and Latin American literature, gothic and monstrous aesthetics, world-literature, and ecocriticism.

• 1. Introduction: Plotting the Crisis—World-Literature, World-Culture, and the World-Food-System.- Part I Imperial Appetites and the Development of the World-Food-System.- 2. Eat Meat Crave Repeat: H. Rider Haggard, Lost World Romance and the Global Growth of Britain’s Meat Markets.- 3. Pain, Pleasure, and the World-Food-System: Plotting the Afterlife of the Plantation in the Poetry of Grace Nichols.- 4. "The Landscape Heaved with Unspeakable Terror": The Weird Presence of the World-Food-System in the Cultural Imaginaries of England and the Caribbean.- Part II Cash-Crops and Agricultural Monarchs.- 5. Laurie Lee in Cyprus: Scripting Propaganda, Productivity, and Peasant Labour.- 6. Plants in the Free World Garden: Revolution and Rice in Thai Literature.- 7. Fleeing Ilex Paraguariensis: Yerba Mate Plantations in Horacio Quiroga and Augusto Roa Bastos.- 8. "To win the energies of intoxication for the revolution": Dialectical Aesthetics in Miguel Ángel Asturias’ Banana Trilogy (1950–1960).- Part III Consumed by Crisis.- 9. Alimentary Gothic: Horror, Puerto Rico and the World-Food-System.- 10. Made in Cod’s Image: Food, Fuel, and World-Ecological Decline in Michael Crummey’s Sweetland.- 11. White Flight from Planet Earth: Reading Race, Cheap Food, and Capitalism’s Crisis State in Interstellar.