| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 272 pages). |
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| Series |
Ecocritical theory and practice
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Ecocritical theory and practice.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The environmentalism of the hungry tide / Priya Kumar -- "The land was wounded" : war ecologies, commodity frontiers, and Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard -- Scenes from the global south in China : Zheng Xiaoqiong's poetic agency for labor and environmental justice / Zhou Xiaojing -- Literary isomorphism and the Malayan and Caribbean archipelagos / Christopher Lloyd de Shield -- Wai tangi, waters of grief, wai ora, waters of life : rivers, reports and reconciliation in Aotearoa New Zealand / Charles Dawson -- Fish, coconuts, and ocean people : nuclear violations of Oceania's "earthly design" / Dina El Dessouky -- Intimate kinships : who speaks for nature and who listens when nature speaks for herself? / Benay Blend -- Redefining modernity in Latin American fiction : toward ecological consciousness in La loca de gandoca and Lo que soñó / Sebastian Adrian Kane -- Northern Ireland : global south / James McElroy -- "Decline and fall" : empire, land, and the twentieth-century Irish "big house" novel / Eóin Flannery -- Landscape and animal tragedy in Nsahlai Nsambu Athanasius's The buffalo rider : ecocritical perspectives, the cameroon experiment / Augustine Nchoujie -- Ecocriticism beyond animist intimations in Things fall apart / Senayon Olaoluwa -- Ecocriticism, globalized cities, and African narrative, with a foucs on K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen cents / Anthony Vital -- Environmental and cultural entropy in Bozorg Alavi's "Gilemard" / Zahra Parsapoor -- Environmental consciousness in contemporary Pakistani fiction / Munazza Yaqoob. |
| Summary |
Using the rubric of the "Global South," this volume allows scholars from underrepresented regions to offer commentary on the ecological conditions and environmental cultures in the developing world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ecocriticism -- Developing countries.
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Ecocriticism. |
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Developing countries. |
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Environmentalism in literature.
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Environmentalism in literature. |
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Developing countries -- In literature.
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Developing countries -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Human ecology -- Developing countries.
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Human ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Slovic, Scott, 1960- editor.
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Rangarajan, Swarnalatha, 1969- editor.
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Sarveswaran, Vidya, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ecocriticism of the global South Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015. 9780739189108 (hbk. : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2015000265 |
| ISBN |
9780739189115 ebook |
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0739189115 |
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9780739189108 hardback : acid-free paper |
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9781498515887 paperback : acid-free paper |
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0739189107 |
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1498515886 |
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