Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place

ISBN-13: 9780367754587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 176 str.

Lenka Filipova

Opis

The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book will appeal to researchers working in the fields of the environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, indigenous studies and comparative literature.

Spis treści

Introduction: From Local to Global and Back Again  Chapter 1: Small-Scale Farming and the Ethics of Proximity in Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow  Chapter 2: Wilderness and Place in Gary Snyder’s The Practice of the Wild  Chapter 3: Industrialisation and Displacement in John Berger’s Into Their Labours Trilogy  Chapter 4: Colonisation and Displacement in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance  Chapter 5: Slow Violence and Neocolonialism in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water  Chapter 6: Universalism and Embodied Knowledge in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide  Conclusion: Ecocritical Communities