TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roos,Bonnie
AU  - Hunt,Alex
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Postcolonial green: environmental politics & world narratives 
T2  - Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism
AV  - PR9080.5 .P69 2010eb
U1  - 820.9/36 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Commonwealth literature (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Human ecology in literature
KW  - Ecology in literature
KW  - Colonies in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Environmental justice in literature
KW  - Environmentalism in literature
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Ecocriticism
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu; "Relations with food": agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield -- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja -- North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke -- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos -- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10495612
ER  -