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1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350010840
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9781350010833
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9781350010802
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1350010812
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9781350010819
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1350010804
Content:
Chapter 1. Thinking about transcultural ecocriticism: space, scale and translation / Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney, Griffith University, Australia -- Part A. Planetary localities. Chapter 2 Urban narrative and climate change / Ursula K. Heise , UCLA, USA ; Chapter 3. Scaling down our imagination of the human: Ted Chiang and the fable of extinction / Chris Danta, University of New South Wales, Australia ; Chapter 4. 'Re-enchanting the world' from Mozambique: the African anthropocene and Mia Couto's Poetics of the planet / Meg Samuelson, University of Adelaide and Stellenbosch University, South Africa ; Chapter 5. Ecological imaginations in contemporary Chinese science fiction / Mengtian Sun, University of Melbourne, Australia -- Part B. Beyond the romantic frontier. Chapter 6. The colonial translation of natures / Alan Bewell, University of Toronot, Canada ; 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, Nanzan University, Japan ; Chapter 9. Shaping selves and spaces: romanticism, botany and South-West Western Australia / Jessica White, University of Edinburgh, UK -- Part C. Decolonial poetics. Chapter 10. Transcultural ecopoetics and decoloniality in meenamatta lena puellakanny: Meenamatta Water Country Discussion / Peter Minter , University of Sydney, Australia ; Chapter 11. Theorising decolonised literary environments / Stephen Muecke, Flinders University, Australia ; Chapter 12. Placing invisible women: environment, space and power in two works / by Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim Maia Gunn Watkinson, University of New South Wales, Australia ; Chapter 13. Geoterritorial Island poetics, or Transcultural composition with a wetland in Southern Chile / Stuart Cooke, with Juan Paulo Huirimilla, La Universidad de Los Lagos, Puerto Montt, Chile Index.
Content:
"Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary techniques to make interventions into the real social conditions of our time. It seeks to capture the complex, fragmented nature of contemporary experience while addressing crucial issues like income inequality, immigration, the climate crisis, terrorism, ever-changing technologies, shifting racial, sex and gender roles, and the rise of new forms of authoritarianism. A lucid, comprehensive introduction to the genre as well as to a wide variety of voices, this book discusses more than forty writers from a diverse range of backgrounds, and over several decades, with special attention to 21st-century novels. Writers covered include: Kathy Acker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Julia Alvarez, Sherman Alexie, Gloria Anzaldua, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, A.S. Byatt, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Ana Castillo, Don DeLillo, Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Awaeki Emezi, Mohsin Hamid, Jessica Hagedorn, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ursula K. Le Guin, Daisy Johnson, Bharati Mukherjee, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Tommy Orange, Ruth Ozeki, Ishmael Reed, Eden Robison, Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, Leslie Marmon Silko, Art Spiegelman, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jeannette Winterson, among others."--
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350010802
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350010802
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350010840
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