{"product_id":"postcolonial-ecologies-literatures-of-the-environment-paperback","title":"Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Deloughrey\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGeorge Handley\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial writers, the diverse contributions highlight the literary imagination as crucial to representing what Eduoard Glissant calls the \"aesthetics of the earth.\" The essays are organized around a group of thematic concerns that engage culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. With chapters that address works by J. M. Coetzee, Kiran Desai, Derek Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, Zakes Mda, and many others, \u003cem\u003ePostcolonial Ecologies\u003c\/em\u003e makes a remarkable contribution to rethinking the role of the\u003cbr\u003ehumanities in addressing global environmental issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth DeLoughrey\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eRoutes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures\u003c\/em\u003e and a coeditor of \u003cem\u003eCaribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge B. Handley\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University, is the author of \u003cem\u003ePostslavery Literatures of the Americas\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNew World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47681614151928,"sku":"9780195394436","price":87.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/OWZPUGZ4NC9UVy9WV1BneTFySnRVQT09.webp?v=1766307333","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/postcolonial-ecologies-literatures-of-the-environment-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}