Post Green
Literature, Culture, and the Environment
Published on 15. December 2023
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-6669-4790-8 (ISBN)
Description
The idea in Post Green: Literature, Culture, and the Environment is not to create another binary like East/West, but rather a call for a shift in the order of perception. The contributors signal a movement from the conventional understanding of green thinking-acknowledging human-centered limitations of the green approaches and recognising the immense possibilities and holistic perspectives that a symbiotic human-nature perspective offers. This book proposes to move beyond the monoculture of the mind toward a celebration of diversity and plurality. While the movement from red to green was a politics of difference, as essays in this book emphasize, the shift toward post green is based on an all-inclusive and holistic vision that contains within itself both difference and multiplicity, something that is quintessential for the stability of our ecosystem. Such affirmative bio-politics toward an alternative symbiosis challenges intellectual theorising, without minimizing the need for radical questioning. It urges the need to do away with disciplinary boundaries drawing hopes for a new spiritual geography of the mind to surface.
Reviews / Votes
A fascinating collection of ecocritical approaches from different countries and cultures. The explorations of Indian texts and traditions are especially illuminating, and the essays in combination hold out intriguing possibilities of dialogue. -- Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
1 BW Illustration
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
533 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-4790-8 (9781666947908)
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Literature, Culture, and the Environment
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Literature, Culture, and the Environment
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12/2023
1st Edition
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Persons
Murali Sivaramakrishnan is professor and former head of the Department of English at Pondicherry University.
Animesh Roy is assistant professor in the Department of English at St. Xavier's College.
Animesh Roy is assistant professor in the Department of English at St. Xavier's College.
Content
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Philosophizing Post-Green: Re/Moving Borderlands-Beyond Modernity's Last Post
Murali Sivaramakrishnan
1. Recalling Herbert Marcuse on Socialism's Radical Goals Today
Charles Reitz
2. Aesthetics of Survival
K. Satchidanandan
3. Ghost God Dancing with the Bat, and Covid-19
Peter I-Min Huang
4. From a Mythic City to a Rubbish Metropolis: Urban Imaginaries of Istanbul in Contemporary Turkish Non/Fiction
Kerim Can Yazguenoglu
5. Oil Ecology, The Niger Delta and The Crisis of Survival in Ogaga Ifowodo's The Oil Lamp
Oluseye Abiodun Babatunde
6. Passionate Specificity
Ann Fisher-Wirth
7. The Alchemy of Inside and Outside: Feminism, Ecology and The Self in Kamala Das
Usha VT
8. Healing and Sweetening: Ted Hughes and the Regeneration of Elmet
Ann Skea
9. John Clare and the Horizon of Nature's Mystery
Mihai A. Stroe
10. How Ideology has Driven Beauty from Ecocriticism and the Arts in General: The Allure of Oppositional Politics and Aesthetics
P. Quigley
11. Eco-Phenomenology in Comparative Literature: Salvatore Quasimodo and Odysseus Elytis' Eco-Poetics
Nikoleta Zampaki
12. Of The Forest: Ecology, Culture and History
Debarati Bandyopadhyay
13. A World of Many Minds: Toward a Post-green Vision of the Future
Jack Hunter
About the Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Philosophizing Post-Green: Re/Moving Borderlands-Beyond Modernity's Last Post
Murali Sivaramakrishnan
1. Recalling Herbert Marcuse on Socialism's Radical Goals Today
Charles Reitz
2. Aesthetics of Survival
K. Satchidanandan
3. Ghost God Dancing with the Bat, and Covid-19
Peter I-Min Huang
4. From a Mythic City to a Rubbish Metropolis: Urban Imaginaries of Istanbul in Contemporary Turkish Non/Fiction
Kerim Can Yazguenoglu
5. Oil Ecology, The Niger Delta and The Crisis of Survival in Ogaga Ifowodo's The Oil Lamp
Oluseye Abiodun Babatunde
6. Passionate Specificity
Ann Fisher-Wirth
7. The Alchemy of Inside and Outside: Feminism, Ecology and The Self in Kamala Das
Usha VT
8. Healing and Sweetening: Ted Hughes and the Regeneration of Elmet
Ann Skea
9. John Clare and the Horizon of Nature's Mystery
Mihai A. Stroe
10. How Ideology has Driven Beauty from Ecocriticism and the Arts in General: The Allure of Oppositional Politics and Aesthetics
P. Quigley
11. Eco-Phenomenology in Comparative Literature: Salvatore Quasimodo and Odysseus Elytis' Eco-Poetics
Nikoleta Zampaki
12. Of The Forest: Ecology, Culture and History
Debarati Bandyopadhyay
13. A World of Many Minds: Toward a Post-green Vision of the Future
Jack Hunter
About the Contributors