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The Disposition of Nature : Environmental Crisis and World Literature

This book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist practice. The book devotes particular attention to formerly colonized regions (e.g. Africa and South Asia) in order to understand the relationsh...

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Autor principal: Wenzel, Jennifer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Introduction. Reading for the planet --  |t Chapter 1. Consumption for the common good? commodity biography in an era of postconsumerism --  |t Chapter 2. Hijacking the imagination: how to tell the story of the Niger delta --  |t Chapter 3. From waste lands to wasted lives: enclosure as aesthetic regime and property regime --  |t Chapter 4. How far is bhopal? inconvenient forums and corporate comparison --  |t Epilogue. Fixing the world --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Notes --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index 
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