Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 233 pages)
ISBN:
9781793634573
Series Statement:
Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Content:
Environmental Postcolonialism investigates the environmental ramifications of colonialism and furnishes a hopeful ecocritical vision of a postcolonial world.
Content:
Cover -- Environmental Postcolonialism -- Series page -- Environmental Postcolonialism: A Literary Response -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framework -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- "Transformation Is the Rule of Life" -- Utopia-as-Person -- Utopia-as-Place -- Utopia-as-Sacrifice -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- Cultural Nationalism and Sacred Groves of Kerala -- The Sacred Groves -- The Precolonial Kaavus of Kerala -- The Kaavus in the Colonial Times -- The Position of the Postcolonial Kaavus -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- Politics, Oil, and Theater in Africa -- Politics and Oil in Africa: An Interface -- Politics, Oil, and Theater in Africa -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 -- Through the Postcolonial Lens -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 6 -- "Aesthetics of Belonging" -- Resistance, Identity, and Aesthetics of Belongings -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 -- I Am a Tree Leaning -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 8 -- For Appearances Must Deceive -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 -- Postcolonial Ecology and Representation -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 10 -- Land, Labor, and Family -- Settler Colonialism and Puerto Rico -- When Puerto Rico Meets America -- Conclusion: Beyond American Invasion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 -- "Coloniality" of Humans and the Ecology -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 12 -- Women and Power -- Space and Power in Kei Miller's "The White Gal with the Camera" -- Indo-Caribbean Power and Space in Shani Mootoo's "The Bonnaire Silk Cotton Tree" -- Conclusion: The Environment Affecting Women with Digital Cameras and Power in Caribbean Spaces -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13 -- Nature and Resistance in Coetzee and Abani -- J. M. Coetzee, Bare Life and Impossible Communities -- Nature as Community in Chris Abani -- Shared Subjectivity -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793634566
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781793634566
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Environmental postcolonialism Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021 ISBN 1793634564
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793634566
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793634580
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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