@article{428562,
      recid = {428562},
      author = {DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., and Handley, George B.,},
      title = {Postcolonial ecologies : literatures of the environment /},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xi, 348 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {This work is a collection of essays that brings  ecocritical studies into a dialogue with postcolonial  literature, it offers ways to explore the relationship  between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from  texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific  Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by  both well- and little-known postcolonial writers, the  diverse contributions highlight the literary imagination as  crucial to representing what Eduoard Glissant calls the  "aesthetics of the earth." The essays are organized around  a group of thematic concerns that engage culture and  cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of  animals, and the relationship between the military and the  tourist industry. With chapters that address works by J. M.  Coetzee, Kiran Desai, Derek Walcott, Alejo Carpentier,  Zakes Mda, and many others, the book makes a  contribution  to rethinking the role of the humanities in addressing  global environmental issues.  It's features include:  The  overlooked Caribbean, Latin American, African and South  Asian scholars and activists who have contributed to global  environmentalism and a sense of place in literary  production ;  Focuses on an eclectic group of writers from  across the globe that includes Coetzee, Zakes Mda, and  Derek Walcott ; Demonstrates the postcolonial's  long-standing concern with environmentalism.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/428562},
}