Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment - Place, Precarity and Justice

Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and settler colonies such as Canada and Australia, this book maps an ecopoetics of vulnerability and resilience. While environmental fiction has been widely studied, ecopoetry has not received the same level of attention. This book studies the work of over 50 poets from the Global South and the formerly colonized, including John Kinsella, Tanure Ojaide, Linda Hogan, Kofi Awonoor, Okot p''Bitek, Ben Okri, and Sherwin Bitsui. It traces an ecological consciousness that cuts across human and nonhuman, living and non-living domains. It is interested in the making, unmaking and remaking of worlds and meanings in the age of cataclysmic climate shifts, while aware of the histories that fashioned the planet in unjust and unequal ways, and to which the poets bear witness, as well as propose alternative ways of seeing and meaning-making.

About the author

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include Vulnerable Earth (2024), Nuclear Cultures (2023) Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs (2021), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (2021), Ecoprecarity (2019), Bhopal's Ecological Gothic (2017), and others. His essays have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, South Asian Review, South Asia, Narrative, Celebrity Studies, Asiatic, Prose Studies, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Biography, among others. Nayar also holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad.

Summary

Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and settler colonies (Canada, Australia), this book traces a pattern of ecopoetics of vulnerability and resilience.

Product details

• Authors: Pramod K Nayar, Pramod K. Nayar
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 27.11.2025
• EAN: 9781350499089
• ISBN: 978-1-350-49908-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Environmental Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Literary studies: from c 2000