Postcolonial Indigenous Ecocritism and Environmental Protest

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-07688-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

Postcolonial Indigenous Ecocriticism explores the ways in which contemporary indigenous environmental protests are rooted in the folklore, music, dance, art, language, and mythology of the precolonial. Colonized countries and regions, having endured the suppression of indigenous languages as well as the oral traditions conveyed through them, are often inclined to respond similarly to neocolonial incursions on land and resources.

Paul Devereau’s Spirit Roads explores sacred roads and pathways around the world, noting that historians are poor at studying “invisible mental structures” of this kind. While Ranajit Guha’s Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, which analyses over 100 cases of peasant rebellions in British India between 1783 and 1900, observes that these protests depend on such “invisible mental structures.” Guha demonstrates that indigenous protests are usually organized “along the axes of kinship, religion, and caste, and involve gods, spirits, and supernatural agents as actors alongside humans.”This book uses the concept of “invisible mental structures” to examine contemporary environmental activism from a global perspective. The collection includes chapters on India, Ireland, Australia, the United States, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Botswana, and Peru, amongst others. It considers the relationship between literary texts and different forms of climate change activism across a wide range of contexts and cultures.

This edited book will appeal to students, researchers, and academics interested in postcolonial literature and history, environmental humanities and ecocriticism, and environmental justice.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Potts, Donna L.

Bhattacharya, Amitendu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Unsettling Time: Storytelling in Climate Crisis Lydia Nixon  2. Catastrophic Hunger at the Borderlands: Linda Hogan's Solar Storms (1997) and Fernando Flores's Tears of the Truffle Pig (2019) Daniel Murphy, Ph.D  3. The 'ethno-graphic' way: Affective curation and dissemination of indigenous anti-dam assertions in India Ms. Agrima Mishra and Dr. Jenia Mukherjee  4. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's Aurelia Trilogy: Confronting Environmental Injustice, Social Vulnerability, and the Pick-Sloan Plan Alex Cavanaugh  5. Queering Kin and "Becoming-With" the More-Than-Human in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl. Anna Bushy  6. Narrative Flow as Ecocritical Resistance in Indigenous Water Fiction Amelia Chaney  7. Forest, Rivers, and Religion: Analysing Syncretic Texts and Traditions of Bengali Muslims of Riverine Bengal Dr. Pritha Chakraborty 8. The Last Elephant Kreal: Newspaper Discourse and the Voicing of Postcolonial Environmental Protest Thakshala Tissera 9. Juridicial Symbols and Literary Icons: The Forest, a Judgment and a Poem Upamanyu Sengupta 10. Indigeneity and De/Post/colonial Identities: Cultures and Contexts in Northeast India Sukalpa Bhattacharjee 11. Embodied Ecology: Traditional Performative Arts, Rituals, and Ecologial Practices of the Santhal Community Mir Islam  12. On "becoming together": Human-Plan Ethics in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather. Lobna Ben Salem  13. African Ecocriticism: Orature, Indigenous Practices, and Decolonial Eco-future Sule Emmanuel Egya  14. Decentring Anthropocentrism: Human-Nature Nexus in Ben Okri's Songs of Enchantment. John Olorunshola Kehinde  15. Rearticulating Ecological Memory: Indigenous Communities in the Time of COVID-19 Debashree Dattarav  16. (De)Coloniality, earth-beings and idgenous environmentalism in Latin American documentary filmmaking: the case of Hija de la laguna (2015) Elmar Schmidt  17. Changing landscape of state-imposed development in Chittagong Hill Tracts and re-configuration of Indigenous environmental activism Dinalo Chakma and Bishudwy Dewan  18. Ollmháthair Mhór meets the Mothers of Invention: Tradition and Innovation in Irish Environmental Activism Donna L. Potts

Über Autor(innen)

Donna L. Potts is Professor Emerita at Washington State University and Professor at New York Institute of Technology, USA. She’s the author of three scholarly books and one book of poetry, and this is her fourth edited collection.

Amitendu Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of English and Literary Studies in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani – K K Birla Goa Campus, India. His research interests include South Asian literature, ecological humanities, and comparative studies and translation. He has recently coedited a book entitled Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond (Routledge, 2024).