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Postcolonial environments : nature, culture and the contemporary Indian novel in English /
The talk of a catastrophic contemporary environmental crisis is all around us. Yet the relationship between such a crises and literary and cultural forms remains relatively unexamined. This book offers a way to think about this relationship by reading a number of key contemporary Indian novels along...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan/Arts & Humanities Research Council,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The talk of a catastrophic contemporary environmental crisis is all around us. Yet the relationship between such a crises and literary and cultural forms remains relatively unexamined. This book offers a way to think about this relationship by reading a number of key contemporary Indian novels alongside accounts of the severely stressed ecology and environment of the country. In doing so, postcolonial environments also suggests a new alignment between the theoretical fields of postcolonial and environmental studies. In showing how such an alignment can provide us with a materialist and historicist account of environments of cultures and cultures of environment, the book makes an original contribution to the emergent area of green postcolonialism. "Postcolonial Environments examines the relationship between contemporary environmental crises and culture by offering a series of provocative readings of key Indian novels in English, making an original and important contribution to the emerging theories of 'green postcolonialism'"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230251328 0230251323 9781349304868 1349304867 9781282870024 1282870025 |