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Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities) by Bonnie Roos (editor), Alex Hunt (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Postcolonial Green brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Since its inception, ecocriticism has been accused of being inattentive to the complexities that colonialism poses for ideas of nature and environmentalism. Postcolonial discourse, on the other hand, has been so immersed in theoretical questions of nationalism and identity that it has been seen as ignoring environmental or ecological concerns. This collection demonstrates that ecocriticism and postcolonialism must be understood as parallel projects if not facets of the very same project―a struggle for global justice and sustainability. The essays in this collection span the globe, and cover such issues as international environmental policy, land and water rights, food production, poverty, women’s rights, indigenous activism, and ecotourism. They consider all manner of texts, from oral tradition to literary fiction to web discourse. Contributors bring postcolonial theory to literary traditions, such as that of the United States, not typically seen in this light, and, conversely, bring ecocriticism to literary traditions, such as those of India and China, that have seen little ecological analys
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- Author
- Bonnie Roos (editor), Alex Hunt (editor)
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786613585165
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Nature
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