Postcolonial ecologies : literatures of the environment /
This title brings ecocritical studies into a dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island, and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and nature, this book makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2011]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This title brings ecocritical studies into a dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island, and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and nature, this book makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis. Turning to the contemporary production of postcolonial novelists and poets, this book poses the literary imagination as a crucial to imagining what Eduoard Glissant calls the 'aesthetics of the earth'. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199742561 0199742561 0190252804 9780190252809 1283097818 9781283097819 9786613097811 6613097810 0199792739 9780199792733 |