Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place

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.

Autorentext

Lenka Filipova completed her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin.

Inhalt

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