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Using the rubric of the "Global South," this volume allows scholars from underrepresented regions to offer commentary on the ecological conditions and environmental cultures in the developing world.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1.Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, Introduction
2.Priya Kumar, The Environmentalism of The Hungry Tide
3.Sharae Deckard, "The Land Was Wounded": War Ecologies, Commodity Frontiers, and Sri Lankan Literature
4.Zhou Xiaojing, Scenes from the Global South in China: Zheng Xiaoqiong's Poetic Agency for Labor and Environmental Justice
5.Christopher Lloyd de Shield, Literary Isomorphism and the Malayan and Caribbean Archipelagos
6.Charles Dawson, Wai tangi, Waters of Grief, wai ora, Waters of Life: Rivers, Reports and Reconciliation in Aotearoa New Zealand
7.Dina El Dessouky, Fish, Coconuts, and Ocean People: Nuclear Violations of Oceania's "Earthly Design"
8.Benay Blend, Intimate Kinships: Who Speaks for Nature and Who Listens When Nature Speaks for Herself?
9.Adrian Kane, Redefining Modernity in Latin American Fiction: Toward Ecological Consciousness in La loca de Gandoca and Lo que soсу Sebastian
10.James McElroy, Northern Ireland ? Global S
About the author
Vidya Sarveswaran is assistant professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. She has several journal articles to her credit, and has worked on several documentary films as a script writer.Zhou Xiaojing is professor of English at University of the Pacific. She is the author of Cities of Others: Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature and The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry.
Summary
Using the rubric of the “Global South,” this volume allows scholars from underrepresented regions to offer commentary on the ecological conditions and environmental cultures in the developing world.
