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almahu_9949701164902882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004514164
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9789004514171
Series Statement:
Cross/Cultures ; 218
Content:
Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literary criticism in response to global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by climate change. It builds upon, and extends, previous studies in postcolonial ecocriticism to demonstrate how the growing awareness of human-caused global warming has begun to permeate literary consciousness, praxis and analysis. The breadth of the volume's coverage - the diversity of its focal locations, cultures, genres and texts - serves as a salient reminder that, while climate change is global, its impacts vary, effecting peoples from place to place unequally, and often in accordance with their particular historical experience of colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as their ongoing marginalisations. "Demonstrating the urgency of invoking novel epistemological approaches combining the scientific and the imaginative, this book is a "must read" for those concerned about the present and potential impacts of climate change on formerly colonised areas of the world. The comprehensive and illuminating Introduction offers a crucial history and current state of postcolonial ecocriticism as it has been and is addressing climate crises." - Helen Tiffin, University of Wollongong "The broad focus on the polar regions, the Pacific and the Caribbean - with added essays on environmental justice/activism in India and Egypt - opens up rich terrain for examination under the rubric of postcolonial and ecocritical analysis, not only expanding recent studies in this field but also enabling new comparisons and conceptual linkages." - Helen Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London "The subject is topical and vital and will become even more so as the problem of how to reconcile the demands of climate change with the effects on regions and individual nations already damaged by the economic effects of colonisation and the subsequent inequalities resulting from neo-colonialism continues to grow." - Gareth Griffiths, Em. Prof. University of Western Australia.
Note:
Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literatures and criticism in response to the global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by anthropogenic climate change.
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Acknowledgements --
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List of Illustrations --
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Notes on Contributors and Editors --
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Dear Matafele Peinam, /
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1 Introduction Climate Change as Critical Reading Practice /
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2 "The Imagining of Possibilities" Writers as Activists /
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3 River Writing Culture, Law and Poetics /
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4 Which Island, What Home? Plantation Ecologies and Climate Change in Australia and Nauru /
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5 Island Life and Wild Time Crossing into Country in Tim Winton's Island Home /
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6 Islands Within Islands Climate Change and the Deep Time Narratives of the Southern Beech /
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7 Refashioning Futures with Sargassum A Caribbean Poetics of Hope /
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8 "Kāne and Kanaloa Are Coming" Contemporary Hawaiian Poetry and Climate Change /
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9 Monsoonal Memories and "the Reliable Water" Reading Climate Change in Selected Malaysian Literature /
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10 Aswan High Dam and Haggag Oddoul's Stories from Old Nubia Redefining the Line between Immediate Catastrophe and Slow Violence /
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11 Caring for the Future Climate Change, Kinship and Inuit Knowledge /
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12 Fictional Representations of Antarctic Tourism and Climate Change To the Ends of the World /
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13 Ice Islands of the Anthropocene The Cultural Meanings of Antarctic Bergs /
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Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022 ISBN 9789004514171
Language:
English
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