Interrogating Eco-Literature and Sustainable Development - Mukherjee, Sharbani Banerjee; Roy, Soumitra; (ed.) - Prospero Internet Bookshop
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Interrogating Eco-Literature and Sustainable Development

Theory, Text, and Practice
 
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This book examines the issues of ecological crisis and sustainable development through critical reading of literary texts.

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This book examines the issues of ecological crisis and sustainable development through critical reading of literary texts. By analysing writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Amitav Ghosh, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hannah Arendt, and Lawrence Buell, it discusses themes like oriental representations of ecological consciousness; environmental evocations; misogyny and its postmodern creations; tracing nature?s footprints in English literature; statelessness and consequent environmental refugees; ecocriticism and comics; and, absolute trust in the goodness of the earth.


The volume argues that within the ambit of debates between ecological threats and socio-economic concerns, culture plays a vital role particularly in relation to parameters such as identity and engagement, memory and projection, gender and generations, inquiry and learning, wellbeing and health.


This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, English literature, social anthropology, gender studies, sustainable development, environmental studies, ecological studies, development studies, and post-colonial studies.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures. Preface, Acknowledgements. Introduction - Of Anthropocene: Far End of the Eco-critical Trajectory. Part I. Through Various Lenses: Theorizing Ecology. 1. Tagore's Red Oleanders: Tracing a Root of Socialist Eco-feminism. 2. Dialectics of Nature and Culture.
3. Ecocriticism and Comics. 4. Dialectics of Environment through the Prism of Fiction: An Overview of Amitav Ghosh?s The Hungry Tide. 5. From Ecocriticism to Omninaturalism: The Green Consciousness and Intercorporeality.
6. Exploring Eco-Criticism and Eco-Feminism A Re-reading of Wide Sargasso Sea. 7. Studying ?Cli-fi?: Thinking about the ?Unthinkable?. Part II. Ecology and Literary Representation. 8. Gerard Manley Hopkins?A Priest of Ecology. 9. Statelessness, Environmental Refugee and ?The Law of Humanity?: Reading Hannah Arendt, Lawrence Buell and Amitav Ghosh together. 10. The Rhetoric of Space: Space and Human Behaviour in Nathaniel Hawthorne?s ?Young Goodman Brown? and The Scarlet Letter. 11. Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: An Ecocritical/Ecofeminist Reading of Alice Walker?s The Colour Purple. 12. Misogyny and Its Postmodern Creation: A Material Eco-feminist Reading of Harold Pinter's Select Female Characters. 13. The Unnatural Nature: Edgar Allan Poe and Eco-horror. Part III. Development and Sustainability. 14. Development and Sustainability: Understanding the Duality of Expectations through a Study of Literature. 15. Sustainable Development and Ecological Perspectives: Improvement in Water and Sanitation. 16. Analysis of Ambient Air Quality of Asansol Sub-division and It?s Sustainable Solution. 17. Tracing Nature?s Footprints in English Literature: An Ecocritical Perspective.