| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Thinking about transcultural ecocriticism: Space, scale and translation / Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney -- Part 1: Planetary localities ; Chapter 2. Urban narrative and climate change / Ursula K. Heise -- Chapter 3. Scaling down our imagination of the human : Ted Chiang and the fable of extinction / Chris Danta -- Chapter 4. ‘Re-enchanting the world’ from Mozambique : The African Anthropocene and Mia Couto’s poetics of the planet / Meg Samuelson -- Chapter 5. Ecological imaginations in contemporary Chinese science fiction / Mengtian Sun -- Part 2. Beyond the romantic frontier ; Chapter 6. The colonial translation of natures / Alan Bewell -- Chapter 7. Sensing empire : Travel writing, picturesque taste and British perceptions of the Indian sensory environment / Peter Denney -- Chapter 8. The dark side of romantic dendrophilia / Ve-Yin Tee -- Chapter 9. Shaping selves and spaces : Romanticism, botany and south-west Western Australia / Jessica White -- Part 3. Decolonial poetics ; Chapter 10. Transcultural ecopoetics and decoloniality in meenamatta lena narla puellakanny : Meenamatta Water Country Discussion / Peter Minter -- Chapter 11. Theorizing decolonized literary environments / Stephen Muecke -- Chapter 12. Placing invisible women : Environment, space and power in two works by Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim / Maia Gunn Watkinson -- Chapter 13. Geoterritorial island poetics, or transcultural composition with a wetland in southern / Chile Stuart Cooke and Juan Paulo Huirimilla Oyarzo |
| Summary |
"Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies. By examining these literatures across a range of geographical locations and historical periods -- from Romantic period travel writing to Chinese science fiction and Aboriginal Australian poetry -- the book makes a compelling case for the need for ecocriticism to competently translate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous, planetary and local, and contemporary and pre-modern perspectives. Leading scholars from Australasia and North America explore links between Indigenous knowledges, Romanticism, globalisation, avant-garde poetics and critical theory in order to chart tensions as well as affinities between these discourses in a variety of genres of environmental representation, including science fiction, poetry, colonial natural history and oral narrative."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ecocriticism.
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Ecology in literature.
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Romanticism.
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Decolonization in literature.
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romanticism (form of expression)
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Romanticism
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Ecology in literature
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Decolonization in literature
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Ecocriticism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cooke, Stuart, editor.
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Denney, Peter , editor
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| ISBN |
9781350121652 |
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1350121657 |
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9781350121645 |
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1350121649 |
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9781350121669 |
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1350121665 |
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