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Environmental Postcolonialism investigates the environmental ramifications of colonialism and furnishes a hopeful ecocritical vision of a postcolonial world.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction by Shubhanku Kochar and M. Anjum Khan
Chapter 2: "Transformation is the Rule of Life": Environment and the Search for Utopia in The Hungry Tide by Suzy Woltmann
Chapter 3: Cultural Nationalism and Sacred Groves of Kerala by Anupama Nayar
Chapter 4: Politics, Oil and Theatre in Africa by Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah
Chapter 5: Through the Postcolonial Lens: Reading the Environment in Narratives from India's North East by Kalpana Bora Barman
Chapter 6: "Aesthetics of Belonging": Construction of a Postcolonial Landscape in Daud Kamal's Poetry by Humaira Riaz
Chapter 7: I am a Tree Leaning: Neo-colonialism, Eco-consciousness and the Decolonized Self in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing by Anik Sarkar
Chapter 8: For Appearances Must Deceive: Misreading the Environment in Days and Nights in the Forest and its Cinematic Adaptation by Chinmaya Lal Thakur
Chapter 9: Postcolonial Ecology and Representation: Exploring 'Ashani Sanket' as an Eco-Film by Neepa Sarkar
Chapter 10: Land, Labor, and Family: The Impact of US Colonization on Puerto Rico in Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican by Renée Latchman
Chapter 11: 'Coloniality' of Humans and the Ecology: An Eco-critical Reading of Shubhangi Swarup's Latitudes of Longing by Risha Baruah
Chapter 12: Women and Power: Digital Cameras in Postcolonial Caribbean Spaces in Literature by Denise M. Jarrett
Chapter 13: Nature and Resistance in Coetzee And Abani: The Transcoporeal In African Fiction by Puja SenMajumdar
Chapter 14: Colonialism, Capitalism and Nature: A Study of Alex Haley's Roots and Ng¿g¿ wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood by Shivani Duggal
Chapter 15: Beyond the Dichotomy of Humans and Animals: Situating Ecology in Coetzee's Writings by Bipasha Mandal
Chapter 16: Provincializing Ecocriticism: Postcolonial Ecocritical Thoughts and Environmental-Historical Difference by Animesh Roy
About the Contributors
About the author
Shubhanku Kochar is assistant professor at University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi.
M. Anjum Khan is assistant professor of English in Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Summary
Environmental Postcolonialism investigates the environmental ramifications of colonialism and furnishes a hopeful ecocritical vision of a postcolonial world.
