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1 online resource (xi, 301 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism
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Under the sign of nature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy : environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee -- Jungle tide, devouring reef : (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard -- Fragments of Shangri-La : "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue -- Diggers, strangers, and broken men : environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony" : excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu -- "Relations with food" : agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield -- Rhetorics of endangerment : cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja. |
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North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate : grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl -- Wild madness : the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell -- bad seed : imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics : Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke -- Poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros : a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos -- Afterword : postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Human ecology in literature.
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Human ecology in literature. |
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Ecology in literature.
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Ecology in literature. |
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Colonies in literature.
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Colonies in literature. |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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Environmental justice in literature.
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Environmental justice in literature. |
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Environmentalism in literature.
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Environmentalism in literature. |
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Imperialism -- Environmental aspects.
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Imperialism. |
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Globalization -- Environmental aspects.
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Globalization -- Environmental aspects. |
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Ecocriticism.
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Ecocriticism. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Roos, Bonnie, 1970-
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Hunt, Alex.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Postcolonial green. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010 9780813930008 (DLC) 2010002151 (OCoLC)502304511 |
| ISBN |
9780813930657 (electronic book) |
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0813930650 (electronic book) |
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9780813930008 |
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0813930006 |
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9780813930015 |
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0813930014 |
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