Ecoambiguity, community, and development : toward a politicized ecocriticism
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Ecoambiguity, community, and development : toward a politicized ecocriticism
(Ecocritical theory and practice)(Literary Studies ・ environmental studies)
Lexington Books, c2014
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas have long recognized that as soon as we tug on a thread of "ecodegradation," we generally find it linked to some form of cultural oppression. The reverse is also often true. In the spirit of postcolonial ecocriticism, the studies collected by Scott Slovic, R. Swarnalatha, and Vidya Sarveswaran emphasize the impossibility of disentangling environmental and cultural problems.
While not all the authors explicitly invoke Karen Thornber's term "ecoambiguity" or the concepts and terminology of postcolonial ecocriticism, their articles frequently bring to light various ironies. For example, the fact that Ukrainian environmental experience in the twenty-first century is defined by one of the world's most infamous industrial disasters, the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986, yet Ukrainian culture, like many throughout the world, actually cherishes a profound, even animistic, attachment to the wonders of nature. The repetition of this and other paradoxes in human cultural responses to the more-than-human world reinforces our sense of the congruities and idiosyncrasies of human culture. Every human culture, regardless of its condition of economic and industrial development, has produced its own version of "environmental literature and art"-but the nuances of this work reflect that culture's precise social and geophysical circumstances. In various ways, these stories of community and development from across the planet converge and diverge, as told and explained by distinguished scholars, many of whom come from the cultures represented in these articles.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran
Chapter 1: Plundering Borderlands North and South
Karen Thornber
Chapter 2: Tibet, a Topos in Ecopolitics of the Global South
Gang Yue
Chapter 3: Red China, Green Amnesia: Locating Environmental Justice in Contemporary Chinese Literature
Cheng Li and Yanjun Liu
Chapter 4: Minamata and the Symbolic Discourse of the South
Tsutomu Takahashi
Chapter 5: Indian Environmentalism and Its Fragments
Jyotirmaya Tripathy
Chapter 6: From Bhopal to Biometrics: Biological Citizenship in the Age of Globalization
Pamod Nayar
Chapter 7: Beyond the Eco-flaneur's Footsteps: Perambulatory Narration in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying
Laura A. White
Chapter 8: Reconsidering the Eco-Imperatives of Ukrainian Consciousness: An Introduction to Ukrainian Environmental Literature
Inna Sukhenko
Chapter 9: Kissed by Lightning and Fourth Cinema's Natureculture Continuum
Salma Monani
Chapter 10: Under all the laws, natural, human, and divine: Reinterpreting La Leyenda Negra's Colonial Purpose
Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
Chapter 11: Mapmaking, Rubbertapping: Cartography and Social Ecology in Euclides da Cunha's The Amazon: Land Without History
Aarti Madan
Chapter 12: Down Under: New World Literatures and Ecocriticism
George B. Handley
Index
Contributors
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