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Environmental Postcolonialism - A Literary Response

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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Shubhanku Kochar and Anjum Khan - Contributions by Shubhanku Kochar; Anjum Khan; Suzy Woltmann; Anupama Nayar; Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah; Kalpana Bora Barman; Humaira Riaz; Anik Sarkar; Chinmaya Lal Thakur; Neepa Sarkar; Renée Latchman; Risha B Klappentext Environmental Postcolonialism investigates the environmental ramifications of colonialism and furnishes a hopeful ecocritical vision of a postcolonial world. Zusammenfassung Environmental Postcolonialism investigates the environmental ramifications of colonialism and furnishes a hopeful ecocritical vision of a postcolonial world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

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Authors Shubhanku Khan Kochar
Assisted by Anjum Khan (Editor), Shubhanku Kochar (Editor)
Publisher Lexington Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.04.2023
 
EAN 9781793634580
ISBN 978-1-79363-458-0
No. of pages 240
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama

NATURE / Ecology, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, natural history, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Literature: history & criticism

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