Environmental Postcolonialism
A Literary Response
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 8. February 2021
240 pages
978-1-9787-5246-7 (ISBN)
Description
A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title
Environmental Postcolonialism: A Literary Response is an academic investigation of the environmental repercussions of colonial destruction. This volume addresses the complex interplay between postcolonialism and environmental discourse through literature produced in the ex-colonies. This literature is read from the standpoint of ex-colonies within their human and non-human context. The primary objective of this volume is to scrutinize environmental concerns in the light of postcolonial theory, and so it examines works of art from the twin perspective of eco-criticism and postcolonialism which illuminates and underscores how colonizers destroyed and interfered with both nature and culture. Through discussing the intersecting layers of ecocriticism and postcolonial criticism, the volume gestures to new directions and generates a hopeful vision of a decolonized world.
Environmental Postcolonialism: A Literary Response is an academic investigation of the environmental repercussions of colonial destruction. This volume addresses the complex interplay between postcolonialism and environmental discourse through literature produced in the ex-colonies. This literature is read from the standpoint of ex-colonies within their human and non-human context. The primary objective of this volume is to scrutinize environmental concerns in the light of postcolonial theory, and so it examines works of art from the twin perspective of eco-criticism and postcolonialism which illuminates and underscores how colonizers destroyed and interfered with both nature and culture. Through discussing the intersecting layers of ecocriticism and postcolonial criticism, the volume gestures to new directions and generates a hopeful vision of a decolonized world.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-5246-7 (9781978752467)
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Persons
Shubhanku Kochar is assistant professor at University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi.
M. Anjum Khan is assistant professor of English in Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
M. Anjum Khan is assistant professor of English in Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction by Shubhanku Kochar and M. Anjum Khan
Chapter 2: "Transformation is the Rule of Life": Environment and the Search for Utopia in The Hungry Tide by Suzy Woltmann
Chapter 3: Cultural Nationalism and Sacred Groves of Kerala by Anupama Nayar
Chapter 4: Politics, Oil and Theatre in Africa by Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah
Chapter 5: Through the Postcolonial Lens: Reading the Environment in Narratives from India's North East by Kalpana Bora Barman
Chapter 6: "Aesthetics of Belonging": Construction of a Postcolonial Landscape in Daud Kamal's Poetry by Humaira Riaz
Chapter 7: I am a Tree Leaning: Neo-colonialism, Eco-consciousness and the Decolonized Self in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing by Anik Sarkar
Chapter 8: For Appearances Must Deceive: Misreading the Environment in Days and Nights in the Forest and its Cinematic Adaptation by Chinmaya Lal Thakur
Chapter 9: Postcolonial Ecology and Representation: Exploring 'Ashani Sanket' as an Eco-Film by Neepa Sarkar
Chapter 10: Land, Labor, and Fa
Chapter 2: "Transformation is the Rule of Life": Environment and the Search for Utopia in The Hungry Tide by Suzy Woltmann
Chapter 3: Cultural Nationalism and Sacred Groves of Kerala by Anupama Nayar
Chapter 4: Politics, Oil and Theatre in Africa by Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah
Chapter 5: Through the Postcolonial Lens: Reading the Environment in Narratives from India's North East by Kalpana Bora Barman
Chapter 6: "Aesthetics of Belonging": Construction of a Postcolonial Landscape in Daud Kamal's Poetry by Humaira Riaz
Chapter 7: I am a Tree Leaning: Neo-colonialism, Eco-consciousness and the Decolonized Self in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing by Anik Sarkar
Chapter 8: For Appearances Must Deceive: Misreading the Environment in Days and Nights in the Forest and its Cinematic Adaptation by Chinmaya Lal Thakur
Chapter 9: Postcolonial Ecology and Representation: Exploring 'Ashani Sanket' as an Eco-Film by Neepa Sarkar
Chapter 10: Land, Labor, and Fa
