Environmental Futures

Caren Irr is professor of English and the Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University. She is the author or editor of five previous books, among them Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century and The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada during the 1930s. 

Introduction
Caren Irr and Anik Chartrand, Decolonizing Environmental Futurisms
1. Africa
Cajetan Iheka, Introduction
Mame Bougouma Diene, Lekki Lekki
Ogaga Ifowodo, from The Oil Lamp
Tlotlo Tsamaase, Eclipse Our Sins
Tanure Ojaide, from Tales of the Harmattan
Henrietta Rose-Innes, Poison
2. East Asia
Shaobo Xie, Introduction
Jiang Zidan, Chocho
Han Shaogong, Plants in My Garden
Chen Yingsong, Tree Shouts
Baoerji Yuanye, from Salt on the Stars
Fu Fei, The Pond in the Field
3. Europe
Irina Sadovina, Introduction
Maarja Pärtna, from Vivarium
Niillas Holmberg, from Underfoot
Evgenia Nekrasova, Museum of Moscow Garbage
Anna Carlier, from Hertenleer
Aroa Moreno Durán, Gravity/La gravedad
Dogu Yücel, Under the Seas
Julien Gracq, from Lettrines II
4. Latin America
Roberto Forns-Broggi, Introduction
Abdón Ubidia, from Opinions of a Neanderthal. A Reported Essay
Edmundo Paz Soldán, Far Outside There Are Monsters
Ulises Gutiérrez Llantoy, The Trip of the Mortar
Fogwill, from Runa
Gabriela Damián Miravete, They Will Dream of a Garden
Camila Fadda Gacitúa, “Moving the Water”
5. North America
Kurt Cavender, Introduction
Robin Wall Kimmerer, In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place
Kimberly M. Blaeser, Growing Things
Jamaica Kincaid, What I have been Doing Lately
Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds
David Clerson, The Ape Within
6. South Asia
Upamanyu Mukherjee, Introduction
Mahasweta Devi, Pterodactyl II
Acknowledgements
Editor and Translator Biographies