Environmental Postcolonialism (eBook, PDF)

A Literary Response
Redaktion: Kochar, Shubhanku; Khan, Anjum

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Environmental Postcolonialism: A Literary Response is an academic investigation of the environmental repercussions of colonial destruction. This volume addresses the complex interplay between postcolonialism and environmental discourse through literature produced in the ex-colonies. This literature is read from the standpoint of ex-colonies within their human and non-human context. The primary objective of this volume is to scrutinize environmental concerns in the light of postcolonial theory, and so it examines works of art from the twin perspective of eco-criticism and postcolonialism which illuminates and underscores how colonizers destroyed and interfered with both nature and culture. Through discussing the intersecting layers of ecocriticism and postcolonial criticism, the volume gestures to new directions and generates a hopeful vision of a decolonized world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978752467
• Artikelnr.: 74830150

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Fa