The Disposition of Nature : Environmental Crisis and World Literature

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wenzel, Jennifer
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Nature in literature
Environmental degradation
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
Nature dans la litterature.
world literature.
postcolonial.
new materialism.
imperialism.
globalization.
environmental justice.
environmental humanities.
ecocriticism.
corporation.
Anthropocene.
Nature in literature.
Environmental degradation > Developing countries.
Developing countries
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Reading for the planet
  • Chapter 1. Consumption for the common good? commodity biography in an era of postconsumerism
  • Chapter 2. Hijacking the imagination: how to tell the story of the Niger delta
  • Chapter 3. From waste lands to wasted lives: enclosure as aesthetic regime and property regime
  • Chapter 4. How far is bhopal? inconvenient forums and corporate comparison
  • Epilogue. Fixing the world
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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