Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment

Treasa De Loughry is Assistant Professor in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is author of The Global Novel and Capitalism-in-Crisis: Contemporary Literary Narratives (2020) and co-editor of the special issue of CLC: Comparative Literature and Culture on “Periodizing the Present: The 2020s, The Longue Durée, and Contemporary Culture” (with Brittany Murray, 2021).Sharae Deckard is Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama, Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is author of Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalization: Exploiting Eden (2010), co-author of Tracking Capital: World-Systems, World-Ecology, and World-Culture (with Michael Niblett and Stephen Shapiro; 2024), and editor of the Green Letters special issue “Global and Postcolonial Ecologies” (2012).Kerstin Oloff is Associate Professor of Hispanic Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous (2023), and co-editor of Perspectives on the Other America: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture (with Michael Niblett; 2009) and Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology and the Global Food System (with Chris Campbell and Michael Niblett; 2021).Claire Westall is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. She is author of The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature (2021), co-author of The Public on the Public: The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure (with Michael Gardiner; 2014), and co-editor of Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice (with Michelle Kelly; 2021).

• Introduction: World-Literature as World-Ecological Force - Deckard, De Loughry, Oloff and Westall; Part I: Commodity Frontiers and Extraction; 1. Romance, Race and Extraction from the Page to the Stage - Natalie Suzelis; 2. Global Anglophone to Global Indigenous: Revisiting Extractive Frontiers as Indigenous Homelands - Alok Amatya; 3. Gender, Energy and the Aeolian: Windfarm Developments and Saharawi Imaginaries in Occupied Western Sahara - Joanna Allan; 4. “To Silently Suffer Exhaustion”: World-Literature, Extractive Imperialism and the Apple iPhone’s Commodity Chain - Michael Niblett; 5. Waste Frontiers and Revolutionary Entropy in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide (2013) and Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019) - Treasa De Loughry; Part II: Fossil Fuel Energetics; 6. Compliant Invisibility and Disruptive Visibility: Dimensions of Coal Energy in Kipling’s “The Secret of the Machines” (1911) and “The Giridih Coalfields” (1934) - Swaralipi Nandi; 7. (Un)Economic Exhaustion in David Peace’s GB84 (2004): System Reading, Body Burden and the Formal Rendering of Coal Life - Claire Westall; 8. “Petroleum [the] Symbol of Venezuela’s Soul”: Reading the Coloniality of Oil in Gabriel Bracho Montiel’s Guachimanes (1954) and Miguel Otero Silva’s Oficina No 1 (1961) - Natasha Bondre; 9. Theatre as the Genre of Oil: Performance, Visibility and Modernisation in the Kuwaiti Petro-State - Faisal Hamadah; 10. Between Artwashing and Insurgency: Dramatising Oil Spillages in the Niger Delta - Henry Obi Ajumeze; 11. “It’s Not Where You Go, It’s How You Get There”: Petromodernity, Automobility and Short Fiction in Trinidad - Chris Campbell; Part III: Food and Land; 12. Life Beyond Meat: The Expansionist Structure of Feeding in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Adventure and Romance Fiction - Fiona Schroeder and Paul Young; 13. The Reconfiguration of Nature and Minzu in Chinese Eco-Literature - Haomin Gong; 14. Gardens and Glasshouses: Figuring Extraction in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother (1996) and My Garden (Book) (1999) - Stacey Balkan; 15. An Indigiqueer Ecopoetics of Food: Relationalities and Rehabilitation in the Poetry of Tommy Pico - Caleb O’Connor; Part IV: Oceans, Fresh Water and Hydropolitics; 16. Brazilian Modernism and the Politics of Water - Thomas Waller; 17. The Hydroterrors of Indian Graphic Novels: Tracking the Hydrogothic, Hydro-mythic and Hydrocolonial - Pramod K. Nayar; 18. Docupoetics and Hydraulic State Power: Infrastructural Reading, “Submerged Perspectives” and the Poetry of Muriel Rukeyser and Jonah Mixon-Webster - Alexandra Campbell; 19. Oceanic Literacy: The Seascape Epistemologies of Indian Ocean Literature - Tyler Scott Ball; 20. Reading Customary Law of the Sea in Robert Sullivan’s Star Waka (1999) and Queen Sālote Tupou III’s Songs & Poems of Queen Sālote (2004/2019) - Lea Lani Kinikini; 21. Water and Waste in Contemporary Palestinian Literature - Hannah Boast; Part V: Disease, Toxicity and Social Reproduction; 22. From Ecosickness to Ecowellness: The Environment of Infection in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) and Ashoke Mukhopadhyay’s A Ballad of Remittent Fever (2017) - Tori Bush and Pallavi Rastogi; 23. Lina Meruane’s Fruta Podrida (2007): Agribusiness and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Neoliberal Chile - Sebastián Figueroa; 24. Food Commodities, Anti-Extractivism and the Feminist Ecogothic in Agustina Bazterrica’s Cadáver exquisito (2017) and Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate (2015) - Kerstin Oloff; 25. Disabling World-Ecologies: Epidemic Productivity and the Climate of Extinction in Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert’s The Falling Sky (2013) - Mark Anderson; 26. Inhaling Environment: Contemporary Approaches to Black Poetry and Breath - Christine Okoth; Part VI: Emergencies, Wars and Disasters; 27. The Anthropocene and its Climate Wars - Malcolm Sen; 28. Pyrodigms: Fire and Australian Literature - Tony Hughes-d’Aeth; 29. Postcolonial Civil War, Compound Disaster and Imaginative Recovery: Cinema and Literature of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Liberation - Sourit Bhattacharya; 30. United States Militarism and Environmental Disaster in the Pacific: Colonial Legacies, Indigenous Praxis - Michelle Keown; 31. Slow Care in the Midst of Ecological Slow Violence: Reproductive Fiction and Philippine Post-Disaster Narratives - Alden Sajor Marte-Wood; PART VII: Apocalypse and Insurgency; 32. India, Colonialism and “Energy Justice”: Dinabandhu Mitra, Rudyard Kipling and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain - Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; 33. Climate Insurgency in Octavia Butler’s Parable novels (1993, 1998) and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry of the Future (2020) - Ashley Dawson; 34. Apocalyptic Everyday: Climate Change in Contemporary Comics - Daniel Worden; 35. Marooning Cli-Fi: Climate Emergency and the Ecology of Revolt in Caribbean Science Fiction - Sharae Deckard; 36. “As One Society Collapses, Another is Reborn”: Capitalism and Eco-Apocalypse in the World-Science Fiction Novel - Tom Lubek; Index