Global ecologies and the environmental humanities :  postcolonial approaches / 
edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan. 
 - xv, 391 pages :  illustrations, map ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;  31 .
 - Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;  31. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Foreword / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Introduction: A postcolonial environmental humanities. Part I. The politics of earth: Forests, gardens, plantations. 1. Narrativizing nature: India, empire, and environment / David Arnold -- 2. "The Perverse Little People of the Hills:" Unearthing ecology and transculturation in Reginald Farrer's alpine plant hunting / Jill Didur -- 3. Bagasse: Caribbean art and the debris of the sugar plantation / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- 4. Writing a native garden?: Environmental language and post-Mabo literature in Australia / Susan K. Martin. Part II. Disaster, vulnerability, and resilience. 5. Towards a postcolonial disaster studies / Anthony Carrigan -- 6. Nuclear disaster: The Marshall Islands experience and lessons for a post-Fukushima world -- 7. Island vulnerability and resilience: Combining knowledges for disaster risk reduction, including climate change adaptation / Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard, Jessica Mercer, James Lewis, and Anthony Carrigan. Part III. Political ecologies and environmental justice. 8. The edgework of the clerk: Resilience in Arundhati Roy's Walking the the Comrades / Susie O'Brien -- 9. Filming the emergence of popular environmentalism in Latin America: Postcolonialism and Buen Vivir / Jorge Marcone -- 10. Witnessing the nature of violence: Resource extraction and political ecologies in the contemporary African novel / Byron Caminero-Santangelo. Part IV. Mapping world ecologies. 11. Narrating a global future: Our Common Future and the public hearings of the World Commission on environment and development / Cheryl Lousley -- 12. Oil on sugar: Commodity frontiers and peripheral aesthetics / Michael Niblett -- 13. Ghost Mountains and Stone Maidens: Ecological imperialism, compound catastrophe, and the Post-Soviet ecogothic / Sharae Deckard. Part V. Terraforming, climate change, and the anthropocene. 14. Terraforming planet earth / Joseph Masco -- 15. Climate change, cosmology, and poetry: The case of Derek Walcott's Omeros / George B. Handley -- 16. Ordinary futures: Interspecies worldings in the anthropocene / Elizabeth Deloughrey. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138827721 113882772X 9781138235816 1138235814 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014038773 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ecocriticism.<br/>Environmentalism in literature.<br/>Postcolonialism in literature.<br/>Human ecology in literature.<br/>Ecocriticism.<br/>Environmentalism in literature.<br/>Human ecology in literature.<br/>Postcolonialism in literature.<br/>Ekokritik.<br/>Miljörörelser i litteraturen.<br/>Humanekologi i litteraturen.<br/>Postkolonialism i litteraturen.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN98.E36  / G57 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.9336