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The Caribbean : aesthetics, world-ecology, politics /
Bringing together the work of literary critics, social scientists, activists, and creative writers, this edited collection explores the complex relationships between environmental change, political struggle, and cultural production in the Caribbean. It ranges across the archipelago, with essays cove...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Postcolonialism across the disciplines.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Critical Environments: World-Ecology, World Literature, and the Caribbean; Prologue: The Brutalization of Truth; Catastrophes and Commodity Frontiers ; 1. The Political Ecology of Storms in Caribbean Literature; 2. Zombies, Gender, and World-Ecology: Gothic Narrative in the Work of Ana Lydia Vega and Mayra Mon; 3. Gade nan mizè-a m tonbe: Vodou, the 2010 Earthquake, and Haiti's Environmental Catastrophe; Ecological Revolutions and the Nature of Knowledge
- 4. 'The Abstract Globe in One's Head': Robert Schomburgk, Wilson Harris, and the Ecology of Modernis5. Mining and Mastery: Ethnography and World-Ecology in the Work of Charles Barrington Brown; 6. Hegemony in Guyana: REDD-plus and State Control over Indigenous Peoples and Resources; Economies of Extraction: Restructuring and Resistance ; 7. Ecopoetics of Pleasure and Power in Oonya Kempadoo's Tide Running; 8. Jamaica and the Beast: Negril and the Tourist Landscape; 9. Ecology, Identity, and Colonialism in Martinique: The Discourse of an Environmental NGO (1980-2011) ; Epilogue: Tingaling