Global Literature and the Environment

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of imperialist-capitalism, exploring how literature helps us to imagine and create a habitable and just world.

Autorentext

Matthew Whittle is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Post-War British Literature and the "End of Empire" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Jade Munslow Ong is Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Salford, UK. She is author of Olive Schreiner and African Modernism: Allegory, Empire and Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, 2018).

Klappentext

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of imperialist-capitalism, exploring how literature helps us to imagine and create a habitable and just world.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter One: Earth

Chapter Two: Water

Chapter Three: Air

Chapter Four: Life

Conclusion

Glossary of Key Terms

Suggested Further Reading

Index