Ecoambiguity Community Amp Develcb

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Scott Slovic; Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran - Contributions by Karen Thornber; Gang Yue; Cheng Li; Yanjun Liu; Tsutomu Takahashi; Jyotirmaya Tripathy; Pamod Nayar; Laura A. White; Inna Sukhenko; Salma Monani; Dora Alicia Ramírez; Klappentext Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development extends the energetic and socially important tradition of postcolonial ecocriticism to regions of the world not normally considered in the postcolonial context, such as southern Japan and eastern Europe. The text expands Karen Thornber’s notion of "ecoambiguity" from her own work on East Asian literature and culture to many other countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya SarveswaranChapter 1: Plundering Borderlands North and South Karen ThornberChapter 2: Tibet, a Topos in Ecopolitics of the Global South Gang YueChapter 3: Red China, Green Amnesia: Locating Environmental Justice in Contemporary Chinese Literature Cheng Li and Yanjun LiuChapter 4: Minamata and the Symbolic Discourse of the South Tsutomu TakahashiChapter 5: Indian Environmentalism and Its Fragments Jyotirmaya TripathyChapter 6: From Bhopal to Biometrics: Biological Citizenship in the Age of Globalization Pamod NayarChapter 7: Beyond the Eco-flaneur's Footsteps: Perambulatory Narration in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying Laura A. WhiteChapter 8: Reconsidering the Eco-Imperatives of Ukrainian Consciousness: An Introduction to Ukrainian Environmental Literature Inna SukhenkoChapter 9: Kissed by Lightning and Fourth Cinema's Natureculture Continuum Salma MonaniChapter 10: Under all the laws, natural, human, and divine: Reinterpreting La Leyenda Negra's Colonial Purpose Dora Ramirez-DhooreChapter 11: Mapmaking, Rubbertapping: Cartography and Social Ecology in Euclides da Cunha's The Amazon: Land Without History Aarti MadanChapter 12: Down Under: New World Literatures and Ecocriticism George B. HandleyIndexContributors...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Scott Slovic
• Con la collaborazione di: Swarnalatha Rangarajan (Editore), Rangarajan Swarnalatha (Editore), Vidya Sarveswaran (Editore), Sarveswaran Vidya (Editore), Scott Slovic (Editore), Slovic Scott (Editore), R. Swarnalatha (Editore)
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2014
• EAN: 9780739189085
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8908-5
• Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Categorie: Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Scienze naturali; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Politics & government, environmental science, engineering & technology, Literature: history & criticism, Science / Environmental Science, Ecocritical Theory; Ecocriticism