Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change /

Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change / / edited by Russell McDougall, John C. Ryan, and Pauline Reynolds.

Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literary criticism in response to global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by climate change. It builds upon, and extends, previous studies in postcolonial ecocriticism to demon...

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Superior document:Cross/Cultures ; 218
TeilnehmendeR:
Ryan, John (Poet),
Reynolds, Pauline,
McDougall, Russell,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures ; 218.
Physical Description:1 online resource (428 pages)
Notes:Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literatures and criticism in response to the global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by anthropogenic climate change.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors and Editors
  • Dear Matafele Peinam, / Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
  • 1 Introduction Climate Change as Critical Reading Practice / Russell McDougall, John C. Ryan and Pauline Reynolds
  • 2 “The Imagining of Possibilities” Writers as Activists / Geoffrey V. Davis
  • 3 River Writing Culture, Law and Poetics / Chris Prentice
  • 4 Which Island, What Home? Plantation Ecologies and Climate Change in Australia and Nauru / Paul Sharrad
  • 5 Island Life and Wild Time Crossing into Country in Tim Winton’s Island Home / Stephen Harris
  • 6 Islands Within Islands Climate Change and the Deep Time Narratives of the Southern Beech / John C. Ryan
  • 7 Refashioning Futures with Sargassum A Caribbean Poetics of Hope / Kasia Mika and Sally Stainier
  • 8 “Kāne and Kanaloa Are Coming” Contemporary Hawaiian Poetry and Climate Change / Craig Santos Perez
  • 9 Monsoonal Memories and “the Reliable Water” Reading Climate Change in Selected Malaysian Literature / Agnes S. K. Yeow
  • 10 Aswan High Dam and Haggag Oddoul’s Stories from Old Nubia Redefining the Line between Immediate Catastrophe and Slow Violence / Amany Dahab
  • 11 Caring for the Future Climate Change, Kinship and Inuit Knowledge / Renée Hulan
  • 12 Fictional Representations of Antarctic Tourism and Climate Change To the Ends of the World / Hanne E.F. Nielsen
  • 13 Ice Islands of the Anthropocene The Cultural Meanings of Antarctic Bergs / Elizabeth Leane
  • Index.

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