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245	0	0	_aLocal natures, global responsibilities : _becocritical perspectives on the new English literatures / _cedited by Laurenz Volkmann [and others].
264		1	_aAmsterdam ; _aNew York : _bRodopi, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCross/cultures, _x0924-1426 ; _v121
490	1		_aASNEL papers, _x1385-2981 ; _v15
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0	0	_tPreliminary Material -- _tDialogism as a Solution for the Present Obstacles to an Ecological Culture / _rVernon Gras -- _tGreen Fields: Ecocriticism in South Africa / _rDerek Barker -- _tEcocriticism and a Non-Anthropocentric Humanism: Reflections on Local Natures and Global Responsibilities / _rSerenella Iovino -- _tUtopian Ecology: Technology and Social Organization in Relation to Nature and Freedom / _rAlex Shishin -- _tEmplotting an Ecosystem: Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and the Question of Form in Ecocriticism / _rJens Martin Gurr -- _tRefugees, Settlers, and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide / _rNishi Pulugurtha -- _tSea of Transformation: Re-Writing Australianness in the Light of Whaling / _rSissy Helff -- _tTracking the Tassie Tiger: Extinction and Ethics in Julia Leigh’s The Hunter / _rKylie Crane -- _tAsset or Home?: Ecopolitical Ethics in Patricia Grace’s Potiki / _rClaudia Duppé -- _tImaginary Restraints: Michael Crummey’s River Thieves and the Beothuk of Newfoundland / _rAnke Uebel -- _tThe Human and the Non-Human World in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness and The Whale Caller / _rAstrid Feldbrügge -- _t“Castaways in the Very Heart of the City”: Island and Metropolis in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe / _rMarion Fries–Dieckmann -- _tWhen Trees Become Kings: Nature as a Decolonizing Force in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness / _rMichael Mayer -- _tTowards a Postcolonial Environment?: Nature, ‘Native’, and Nation in Scottish Representations of the Oil Industry / _rSilke Stroh -- _tThe Medium is ... the Monster?: Global Aftermathematics in Canadian Articulations of Frankenstein / _rMark A. McCutcheon -- _tReading as an Animal: Ecocriticism and Darwinism in Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan / _rGreg Garrard -- _tFaustian Dreams and Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake / _rGiuseppina Botta -- _tScience as Deconstruction of Natural Identity: Arthur Conan Doyle’s “When the World Screamed” and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake / _rIngrid–Charlotte Wolter -- _tEcocatastrophes in Recent American (Non-)Fictional Texts and Films / _rNils Zumbansen and Marcel Fromme -- _tFraming Disaster: Images of Nature, Media, and Representational Strategies in Hollywood Disaster Movies / _rNicole Schröder -- _tF. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Ice Palace”: Climate, Culture, and Stereotypes / _rSawako Taniyama -- _tSex and the City?: Ecofeminism and the Urban Experience in Angela Carter, Anne Enright, and Bernardine Evaristo / _rSusanne Gruss -- _tTravel as Transgression: Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom, J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K, and Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album / _rFlorian Niedlich -- _tGlobal Minds and Local Mentalities: ‘Topographies of Terror’ in Salman Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown / _rInes Detmers -- _tNotes on Contributors.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aIn the New Literatures in English, nature has long been a paramount issue: the environmental devastation caused by colonialism has left its legacy, with particularly disastrous consequences for the most vulnerable parts of the world. At the same time, social and cultural transformations have altered representations of nature in postcolonial cultures and literatures. It is this shift of emphasis towards the ecological that is addressed by this volume. A fast-expanding field, ecocriticism covers a wide range of theories and areas of interest, particularly the relationship between literature and other ‘texts’ and the environment. Rather than adopting a rigid agenda, the interpretations presented involve ecocritical perspectives that can be applied most fruitfully to literary and non-literary texts. Some are more general, ‘holistic’ approaches: literature and other cultural forms are a ‘living organism’, part of an intellectual ecosystem, implemented and sustained by the interactions between the natural world, both human and non-human, and its cultural representations. ‘Nature’ itself is a new interpretative category in line with other paradigms such as race, class, gender, and identity. A wide range of genres are covered, from novels or films in which nature features as the main topic or ‘protagonist’ to those with an ecocritical agenda, as in dystopian literature. Other concerns are: nature as a cultural construct; ‘gendered’ natures; and the city/country dichotomy. The texts treated challenge traditional Western dualisms (human/animal, man/nature, woman/man). While such global phenomena as media (‘old’ or ‘new’), tourism, and catastrophes permeate many of these texts, there is also a dual focus on nature as the inexplicable, elusive ‘Other’ and the need for human agency and global responsibility.
650		0	_aCommonwealth literature (English) _xHistory and criticism _vCongresses.
650		0	_aEcology in literature _vCongresses.
650		0	_aNature in literature _vCongresses.
650		7	_aCommonwealth literature (English) _2fast
650		7	_aEcology in literature. _2fast
650		7	_aNature in literature. _2fast
655		7	_aConference papers and proceedings. _2fast
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast
700	1		_aVolkmann, Laurenz.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tLocal natures, global responsibilities. _dAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010 _z9789042028128 _w(OCoLC)607091175
830		0	_aCross/Cultures _v121/15.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004357921.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042028135
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