Post Green

Murali Sivaramakrishnan is professor and former head of the Department of English at Pondicherry University.Animesh Roy is assistant professor in the Department of English at St. Xavier’s College.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Philosophizing Post-Green: Re/Moving Borderlands-Beyond Modernity’s Last Post Murali Sivaramakrishnan1. Recalling Herbert Marcuse on Socialism’s Radical Goals TodayCharles Reitz2. Aesthetics of SurvivalK. Satchidanandan3. Ghost God Dancing with the Bat, and Covid-19Peter I-Min Huang4. From a Mythic City to a Rubbish Metropolis: Urban Imaginaries of Istanbul in Contemporary Turkish Non/FictionKerim Can Yazgünoglu5. Oil Ecology, The Niger Delta and The Crisis of Survival in Ogaga Ifowodo’s The Oil Lamp Oluseye Abiodun Babatunde6. Passionate SpecificityAnn Fisher-Wirth7. The Alchemy of Inside and Outside: Feminism, Ecology and The Self in Kamala DasUsha VT8. Healing and Sweetening: Ted Hughes and the Regeneration of ElmetAnn Skea9. John Clare and the Horizon of Nature’s MysteryMihai A. Stroe10. How Ideology has Driven Beauty from Ecocriticism and the Arts in General: The Allure of Oppositional Politics and AestheticsP. Quigley11. Eco-Phenomenology in Comparative Literature: Salvatore Quasimodo and Odysseus Elytis’ Eco-PoeticsNikoleta Zampaki12. Of The Forest: Ecology, Culture and HistoryDebarati Bandyopadhyay13. A World of Many Minds: Toward a Post-green Vision of the FutureJack HunterAbout the Contributors

A fascinating collection of ecocritical approaches from different countries and cultures. The explorations of Indian texts and traditions are especially illuminating, and the essays in combination hold out intriguing possibilities of dialogue.