Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-221) and index.
Contents:
The sacred, the subalterns, women, and literary legacies. Women, animals, and animality -- Feminized rivers, history, and enchantment -- Women, pasts, and the apocalypse -- The sacred, the subalterns, women, and literary legacies.
Summary:
"This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, both in nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. The main theoretical framework is ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories. Chitra Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women's relationships to non/human worlds"-- Provided by publisher.
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