Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-9822-4 • Hardback • December 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
Krishanu Maiti teaches English language and literature at Panskura Banamali College, Vidyasagar University.
Soumyadeep Chakraborty teaches English language and literature at Raja N.L. Khan Women’s College, Vidyasagar University.
Acknowledgments
Foreword
-Scott Slovic
Critiquing the Green Studies: Introductory Thoughts
-Krishanu Maiti and Soumyadeep Chakraborty (Editors)
Part- I: The Anthropocene, Sustainability and Policy
1. Eco-criticism in a Changing Policy Landscape
-Frederick Gordon
2. Learning to think in the Anthropocene: What can Deleuze-Guattari teach us?
-David R. Cole
3. Solar Power in the Anthropocene: Narrative and its Discontents
-Susan Haris
Part- II: Ecological Aesthetics and Intermediality
4. The Plasto(s)cene: Ecographics in Rachel Hope Allison’s I’m Not a Plastic Bag
-Pramod K. Nayar
5. Ted Hughes, Ecology and the Arts
-Ann Skea
6. Representation in Media Texts: Shaping Contemporary Perceptions of the Anthropogenic Climate Change in Documentaries
-Asmae Ourkiya
7. Defeating the Charges of Denialism: Confronting the Climate Change Crisis in Nila Madhab Panda’s Kadvi Hawa
-Sk Tarik Ali
8. Aesthetics vs. Functionality of Ecodesign: Exploring Sustainable Architectural Models Based on Ecological and Bioclimatic Design Principles
-Stephen Poon
9. “Imag(e)ining” along a Himalayan Trekking Trail
-Apratim Kundu
Part- III: Imagining Nature, Writing Ecology
10. Language Ecology in the Mythic Narrative of Easterine Kire’s Son of the Thundercloud
-Shruti Das
11. E. M. Forster’s Bioregional Sense of Place: “Only Connect…”
-Gulsah Gocmen
12. Salvaging Nature from Ruins of Development in Mamang Dai’s Poetry
-Neeraj Sankhyan and Suman Sigroha
13. Re-membering the Coyolxauhqui: Conocimiento as Environmental activism in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God and Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus.
-Lakshmi Chithra and Swarnalatha Rangarajan
14. The Panchavati and the Green Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
-Debdas Roy
Part- IV: Woman, Nature and Culture
15. Malignancy of Goneril: Nature’s Powerful Warrior
-Nicole Dittmer
16. Escape to Nature in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
-Shelby Heathcoat
17. The Realms of the ‘Natural’ and the ‘Female’: A study of Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown
-Raktima Bhuyan and Hemanga Dutta
Part- V: Multispecies / Interspecies Relationalities
18. Towards Literary Ethnobotany: Burmese Poetry and Biocultural Knowledge of Plants
-John Charles Ryan
19. Preventing Invasion: Stopping the Spread of Quagga Mussels to Bear Lake
-Chelsea Adams
20. “You Will See What It Is to Be a King”: The Power of a Fish in The Sword in the Stone
-Justine Breton
21. Silent Translators: The Role of the Animal as a Mediator in Medieval Human Relationships
-Heather Dail
About the Contributors
Echoing Walt Whitman, I suggested many years ago that ecocriticism was 'large and it contain[ed] multitudes.' Well, the field continues to grow and now contains multitudes of ideas, texts, and vocabularies my colleagues and I never imagined when we worked to establish the field. Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique is diverse and rich in so many ways—culturally, disciplinarily, and even in the varying degrees of aesthetic adventurousness and ethical urgency described by the contributors. This collection showcases the true vibrancy of contemporary work in the environmental humanities.
— Scott Slovic, Oregon Research Institute
Discourses on ecology and environmental humanities have helped us see beyond borders and frontiers and this book, with its global perspectives and multicultural view-points, is a welcome addition. The contributors proffer a variant spectrum of academic studies on imagining nature and narrating ecology.
— Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Pondicherry University
Environment is a ‘process,’ as Lawrence Buell implies, rather than a ‘constant.’ Buell’s implication gives a dynamic direction to environmental studies. In the twenty-first century, ‘environmental humanities’ has evolved out of environmental studies and speaks of cross-fertilization of this domain by multiple disciplines including politics, ethics, aesthetics, linguistics, and others. A wonderful collection of well-researched essays, this book not only draws our attention to the emergent areas of ecocriticism like ecographics, ecotheology, bioregionalism, and multi-species studies but at the same time vividly marks the passage from ecocriticism to environmental humanities.
— Joyjit Ghosh, Vidyasagar University