Transcultural ecocriticism : global, romantic and decolonial perspectives /

"Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies. By examining these literatures across a range of geographical locations and historical periods -- from Roman...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Cooke, Stuart (Editor), Denney, Peter (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
Subjects:	Ecocriticism. Ecology in literature. Romanticism. Decolonization in literature. Écocritique. Romantisme. Décolonisation dans la littérature. romanticism (form of expression) Romanticism Ecology in literature Decolonization in literature Ecocriticism Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Thinking about transcultural ecocriticism: Space, scale and translation / Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney
Part 1: Planetary localities ; Chapter 2. Urban narrative and climate change / Ursula K. Heise
Chapter 3. Scaling down our imagination of the human : Ted Chiang and the fable of extinction / Chris Danta
Chapter 4. {u2018}Re-enchanting the world{u2019} from Mozambique : The African Anthropocene and Mia Couto{u2019}s poetics of the planet / Meg Samuelson
Chapter 5. Ecological imaginations in contemporary Chinese science fiction / Mengtian Sun
Part 2. Beyond the romantic frontier ; Chapter 6. The colonial translation of natures / Alan Bewell
Chapter 7. Sensing empire : Travel writing, picturesque taste and British perceptions of the Indian sensory environment / Peter Denney
Chapter 8. The dark side of romantic dendrophilia / Ve-Yin Tee
Chapter 9. Shaping selves and spaces : Romanticism, botany and south-west Western Australia / Jessica White
Part 3. Decolonial poetics ; Chapter 10. Transcultural ecopoetics and decoloniality in meenamatta lena narla puellakanny : Meenamatta Water Country Discussion / Peter Minter
Chapter 11. Theorizing decolonized literary environments / Stephen Muecke
Chapter 12. Placing invisible women : Environment, space and power in two works by Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim / Maia Gunn Watkinson
Chapter 13. Geoterritorial island poetics, or transcultural composition with a wetland in southern / Chile Stuart Cooke and Juan Paulo Huirimilla Oyarzo.