Postcolonial Ecologies - Literatures of the Environment

Zusatztext a vital contribution to postcolonial ecocriticism. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth DeLoughrey is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UCLA. With George Handley and Renée Gosson, she is the co-editor of Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (U Virginia 2005) and with Cara Cilano, she has edited a special issue of the journal Isle on postcolonial ecocriticism (2007). She has published articles about postcolonial literature in journals such as Ariel, Interventions, Modern Fiction Studies, and PMLA. She is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures (U Hawai`i 2007) and currently completing a manuscript about globalization, nature, and the tropics.George B. Handley, Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University, is the author of Postslavery Literatures of the Americas (Virginia 2000) and New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (Georgia 2007). Klappentext This is the first collection to bring environmental issues 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, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis. Zusammenfassung This is the first collection to bring environmental issues 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, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Deloughrey, Elizabeth (EDT)/ Handley Deloughrey
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Deloughrey (Editor), George Handley (Editor), George B. Handley (Editor), Handley George (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780195394429
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539442-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Literary studies: postcolonial literature