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This book proposes a paradigm shift in contemporary ecocritical scholarship, from radical green politics to post-green. It examines multicultural literature to transcend ethnic and national boundaries, thereby voicing for a multiplicity of human experiences in relation to an eco-globalist imagination.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Philosophizing Post-Green: Re/Moving Borderlands-Beyond Modernity's Last Post
Murali Sivaramakrishnan
1. Recalling Herbert Marcuse on Socialism's Radical Goals Today
Charles Reitz
2. Aesthetics of Survival
K. Satchidanandan
3. Ghost God Dancing with the Bat, and Covid-19
Peter I-Min Huang
4. From a Mythic City to a Rubbish Metropolis: Urban Imaginaries of Istanbul in Contemporary Turkish Non/Fiction
Kerim Can Yazgünölu
5. Oil Ecology, The Niger Delta and The Crisis of Survival in Ogaga Ifowodo's The Oil Lamp
Oluseye Abiodun Babatunde
6. Passionate Specificity
Ann Fisher-Wirth
7. The Alchemy of Inside and Outside: Feminism, Ecology and The Self in Kamala Das
Usha VT
8. Healing and Sweetening: Ted Hughes and the Regeneration of Elmet
Ann Skea
9. John Clare and the Horizon of Nature's Mystery
Mihai A. Stroe
10. How Ideology has Driven Beauty from Ecocriticism and the Arts in General: The Allure of Oppositional Politics and Aesthetics
P. Quigley
11. Eco-phenomenology in Comparative Literature: Salvatore Quasimodo and Odysseus Elytis' Eco-Poetics
Nikoleta Zampaki
12. Of The Forest: Ecology, Culture and History
Debarati Bandyopadhyay
13. A World of Many Minds: Toward a Post-green Vision of the Future
Jack Hunter
About the Contributors
About the author
Murali Sivaramakrishnan is professor and head of the Department of English at Pondicherry University.
Animesh Roy is assistant professor in the Department of English at St. Xavier's College.
Summary
This book proposes a paradigm shift in contemporary ecocritical scholarship, from radical green politics to post-green. It examines multicultural literature to transcend ethnic and national boundaries, thereby voicing for a multiplicity of human experiences in relation to an eco-globalist imagination.
