Ecocriticism of the Global South (eBook)

Vidya Sarveswaran works as an assistant professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. Scott Slovic edits the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and is professor and chair of the English Department at the University of Idaho.Swarnalatha Rangarajan is associate professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Table of ContentsScott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, IntroductionPriya Kumar, The Environmentalism of The Hungry TideSharae Deckard, “The Land Was Wounded”: War Ecologies, Commodity Frontiers, and Sri Lankan LiteratureZhou Xiaojing, Scenes from the Global South in China: Zheng Xiaoqiong’s Poetic Agency for Labor and Environmental JusticeChristopher Lloyd de Shield, Literary Isomorphism and the Malayan and Caribbean ArchipelagosCharles Dawson, Wai tangi, Waters of Grief, wai ora, Waters of Life: Rivers, Reports and Reconciliation in Aotearoa New ZealandDina El Dessouky, Fish, Coconuts, and Ocean People: Nuclear Violations of Oceania’s “Earthly Design”Benay Blend, Intimate Kinships: Who Speaks for Nature and Who Listens When Nature Speaks for Herself?Adrian Kane, Redefining Modernity in Latin American Fiction: Toward Ecological Consciousness in La loca de Gandoca and Lo que soñó SebastianJames McElroy, Northern Ireland ↔ Global SouthEóin Flannery, “Decline and Fall”: Empire, Land, and the Twentieth-Century Irish “Big House” NovelAugustine Nchoujie, Landscape and Animal Tragedy in Nsahlai Nsambu Athanasius’s The Buffalo Rider: Ecocritical Perspectives, the Cameroon ExperimentSenayon Olaoluwa, Ecocriticism beyond Animist Inimations in Things Fall ApartAnthony Vital, Ecocriticism, Globalized Cities, and African Narrative, with a Foucs on K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen CentsZahra Parsapoor, Environmental and Cultural Entropy in Bozorg Alavi’s “Gilemard”Munazza Yaqoob, Environmental Consciousness in Contemporary Pakistani FictionIndexAbout the Contributors