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Desertscapes in the Global South and beyond
Embracing a rich diversity of voices, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of Anthropocene nature cultures in the desert biomes of the Global South and beyond. Essays in this collection will articulate issues of desertification, indigeneity and reinhabitation in narratives that thread together Tibet, China, Australia, India, South Mexico, South Africa and Brazil in all their richness and complexity. Reimaging the desert figure's rich biodiversity, this book presents new ways to envision the human relationships to natural ecology and mindful accountability, tracing complex narrative connections and challenging hegemonic norms of its role in the co-construction of identity, affect and gender. Essays also aim to engage in an intertextual conversation with colonial genres that influence the popular conception of these spaces, moving beyond the usual tropes to forge a topographically informed desert identity and posit a 'natureculture' ecosystem based on the interpenetration of landscape, culture and history. This volume includes literary exploration of environmental injustices, analyzing motifs of deforestation, land degradation, falling crop production, toxic man-made chemicals and extractivist practices linked to various social and economic stressors and gradients in economic and political power. This diverse volume will provide a significant contribution to desert humanities from the Global South, responding to the pressing problems of the Anthropocene and employing place-based ecocritical frameworks that help us imagine a sustainable way of life.
Introduction / Sushila Shekhawat, Rayson K.Alex and Swarnalatha Rangarajan -- Topologies of nihilism : Anthropocene imaginaries and the figure of the desert / Aidan Tynan -- Inheriting isotopes : the Androcene and the End of nature in the Great Victoria Desert A-bomb test sites / CA. Cranston -- Old green deserts and new brown pools : post-colonization, neo-colonization, and decolonization / Iris Ralph -- Slow violence and the desert ecology : re-reading terra nullius in Hergé's Arab World / Nilanjana Chatterjee, Anindita Chatterjee, and Boijayanto Mukherjee -- Environmental and cultural disequilibriums in Southeast Asian literature / Chitra Sankaran -- This land shouldn't be a desert : the collapse of Western civilization in 18th century "California" / Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí -- Graciliano Ramos and Bessie Head : political and affective dimensions of two different deserts / Izabel F. O. Brandão -- Songs of longing : love narratives and the geographical imaginaries of the Thar Desert / Tanuja Kothiyal -- Palai (arid and semi-arid) landscapes in early Tamil literature and history of south India / V. Selvakumar -- Under another sky : a triptych in the Thar Desert / Vidya Sarveswaran -- A different story in the Anthropocene : "ecological migrants" greening deserts in China / Zhou Xiaojing -- Tibet : a new Shambala for posthumanist imagination / Gang Yue -- Overcoming the nature/culture divide : what can we learn from Aboriginal culture in the Anthropocene? / Roslynn Haynes -- The sustainable way of life of the Bedouin gone / Sharif Elmusa.
edited by Sushila Shekhawat, Rayson K. Alex and Swarnalatha Rangarajan.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment