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Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development

Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism
Ecocritical Theory and Practice

von: Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Vidya Sarveswaran, Karen Thornber, Gang Yue, Cheng Li, Yanjun Liu, Tsutomu Takahashi, Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Pamod Nayar, Laura A. White, Inna Sukhenko, Salma Monani, Dora Alicia Ramírez, Aarti Madan, George B. Handley
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Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	19.02.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9780739189092
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	220

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Titelbeschreibung

Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas have long recognized that as soon as we tug on a thread of “ecodegradation,” we generally find it linked to some form of cultural oppression. The reverse is also often true. In the spirit of postcolonial ecocriticism, the studies collected by Scott Slovic, R. Swarnalatha, and Vidya Sarveswaran emphasize the impossibility of disentangling environmental and cultural problems. While not all the authors explicitly invoke Karen Thornber’s term “ecoambiguity” or the concepts and terminology of postcolonial ecocriticism, their articles frequently bring to light various ironies. For example, the fact that Ukrainian environmental experience in the twenty-first century is defined by one of the world’s most infamous industrial disasters, the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986, yet Ukrainian culture, like many throughout the world, actually cherishes a profound, even animistic, attachment to the wonders of nature. The repetition of this and other paradoxes in human cultural responses to the more-than-human world reinforces our sense of the congruities and idiosyncrasies of human culture. Every human culture, regardless of its condition of economic and industrial development, has produced its own version of “environmental literature and art”—but the nuances of this work reflect that culture’s precise social and geophysical circumstances. In various ways, these stories of community and development from across the planet converge and diverge, as told and explained by distinguished scholars, many of whom come from the cultures represented in these articles.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development extends the energetic and socially important tradition of postcolonial ecocriticism to regions of the world not normally considered in the postcolonial context, such as southern Japan and eastern Europe. The text expands Karen Thornber’s notion of “ecoambiguity” from her own work on East Asian literature and culture to many other countries.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
 
Introduction
 
Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran
 
Chapter 1: Plundering Borderlands North and South
 
Karen Thornber
 
Chapter 2: Tibet, a Topos in Ecopolitics of the Global South
 
Gang Yue
 
Chapter 3: Red China, Green Amnesia: Locating Environmental Justice in Contemporary Chinese Literature
 
Cheng Li and Yanjun Liu
 
Chapter 4: Minamata and the Symbolic Discourse of the South
 
Tsutomu Takahashi
 
Chapter 5: Indian Environmentalism and Its Fragments
 
Jyotirmaya Tripathy
 
Chapter 6: From Bhopal to Biometrics: Biological Citizenship in the Age of Globalization
 
Pamod Nayar
 
Chapter 7: Beyond the Eco-flaneur’s Footsteps: Perambulatory Narration in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying
 
Laura A. White
 
Chapter 8: Reconsidering the Eco-Imperatives of Ukrainian Consciousness: An Introduction to Ukrainian Environmental Literature
 
Inna Sukhenko
 
Chapter 9: Kissed by Lightning and Fourth Cinema’s Natureculture Continuum
 
Salma Monani
 
Chapter 10: Under all the laws, natural, human, and divine: Reinterpreting La Leyenda Negra’s Colonial Purpose
 
Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
 
Chapter 11: Mapmaking, Rubbertapping: Cartography and Social Ecology in Euclides da Cunha’s The Amazon: Land Without History
 
Aarti Madan
 
Chapter 12: Down Under: New World Literatures and Ecocriticism
 
George B. Handley
 
Index
 
Contributors

Autorenportrait

Vidya Sarveswaran is assistant professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. She has several journal articles to her credit, and has worked on several documentary films as a script writer. 
 

 
Scott Slovic served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and is editor of the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He is currently writing Fundamentals of Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature and editing The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and Environment.
 

 
Swarnalatha Rangarajan is associate professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She was the founding editor of the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism and has served as guest editor for two special issues on Indian ecosophy for The Trumpeter—the Canadian Journal of Deep Ecology.