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Title:

Ecocriticism of the global South / edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

viii, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ecocriticism--Developing countries.
Environmentalism in literature.
Developing countries--In literature.
Developing countries--Environmental conditions.
Human ecology--Developing countries.

Other Authors:

Slovic, Scott, 1960- editor.
Rangarajan, Swarnalatha, 1969- editor.
Sarveswaran, Vidya, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The environmentalism of the hungry tide / Priya Kumar -- "The land was wounded" : war ecologies, commodity frontiers, and Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard -- Scenes from the global south in China : Zheng Xiaoqiong's poetic agency for labor and environmental justice / Zhou Xiaojing -- Literary isomorphism and the Malayan and Caribbean archipelagos / Christopher Lloyd de Shield -- Wai tangi, waters of grief, wai ora, waters of life : rivers, reports and reconciliation in Aotearoa New Zealand / Charles Dawson -- Fish, coconuts, and ocean people : nuclear violations of Oceania's "earthly design" / Dina El Dessouky -- Intimate kinships : who speaks for nature and who listens when nature speaks for herself? / Benay Blend -- Redefining modernity in Latin American fiction : toward ecological consciousness in La loca de gandoca and Lo que so©ł©đ / Sebastian Adrian Kane -- Northern Ireland : global south / James McElroy -- "Decline and fall" : empire, land, and the twentieth-century Irish "big house" novel / E©đin Flannery -- Landscape and animal tragedy in Nsahlai Nsambu Athanasius's The buffalo rider : ecocritical perspectives, the cameroon experiment / Augustine Nchoujie -- Ecocriticism beyond animist inimations in Things fall apart / Senayon Olaoluwa -- Ecocriticism, globalized cities, and African narrative, with a foucs on K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen cents / Anthony Vital -- Environmental and cultural entropy in Bozorg Alavi's "Gilemard" / Zahra Parsapoor -- Environmental consciousness in contemporary Pakistani fiction / Munazza Yaqoob.

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice

ISBN:

1498515886 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781498515887 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0739189107
9780739189108

OCLC:

(OCoLC)900180163

LCCN:

2015000265

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)