Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development (eBook)

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.

Table of ContentsIntroductionScott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya SarveswaranChapter 1: Plundering Borderlands North and SouthKaren ThornberChapter 2: Tibet, a Topos in Ecopolitics of the Global SouthGang YueChapter 3: Red China, Green Amnesia: Locating Environmental Justice in Contemporary Chinese LiteratureCheng Li and Yanjun LiuChapter 4: Minamata and the Symbolic Discourse of the SouthTsutomu TakahashiChapter 5: Indian Environmentalism and Its FragmentsJyotirmaya TripathyChapter 6: From Bhopal to Biometrics: Biological Citizenship in the Age of GlobalizationPamod NayarChapter 7: Beyond the Eco-flaneur’s Footsteps: Perambulatory Narration in Zakes Mda’s Ways of DyingLaura A. WhiteChapter 8: Reconsidering the Eco-Imperatives of Ukrainian Consciousness: An Introduction to Ukrainian Environmental LiteratureInna SukhenkoChapter 9: Kissed by Lightning and Fourth Cinema’s Natureculture ContinuumSalma MonaniChapter 10: Under all the laws, natural, human, and divine: Reinterpreting La Leyenda Negra’s Colonial PurposeDora Ramirez-DhooreChapter 11: Mapmaking, Rubbertapping: Cartography and Social Ecology in Euclides da Cunha’s The Amazon: Land Without HistoryAarti MadanChapter 12: Down Under: New World Literatures and EcocriticismGeorge B. HandleyIndexContributors