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1 online resource (vii, 203 pages) |
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Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines |
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Postcolonialism across the disciplines.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 covering such topics as the literary representation of tropical storms and hurricanes, the cultural fallout from the Haitian earthquake of 2010, struggles over the rainforest in Guyana, and the role of colonial travel narratives in the reorganization of landscapes. The collection marks an important contribution to the fields of Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism. Through its deployment of the concept of 'world-ecology', it offers up a new angle of vision on the interconnections between aesthetics, ecology, and politics. The volume seeks to grasp these categories not as discrete (if overlapping) entities, but rather as differentiated moments within a single historical process |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism
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Ecocriticism -- Caribbean Area
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Arts, Caribbean -- History and criticism
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HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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HISTORY -- North America.
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Caribbean literature (English)
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Ecocriticism
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Arts, Caribbean
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Caribbean Area
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Niblett, Michael
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Campbell, Chris
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| ISBN |
9781781383780 |
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1781383782 |
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