Wenzel The Disposition of Nature

Environmental Crisis and World Literature
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8680-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

This book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist practice. The book devotes particular attention to formerly colonized regions (e.g. Africa and South Asia) in order to understand the relationships among imperialism, globalization, and environmental injustice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wenzel, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Reading for the Planet 1

Part I: Citizens and Consumers

1. Consumption for the Common Good? Commodity
Biography in an Era of Postconsumerism 49

2. Hijacking the Imagination: How to Tell the Story
of the Niger Delta 81

Part II: Resource Logics and Risk Logics

3. From Waste Lands to Wasted Lives: Enclosure
as Aesthetic Regime and Property Regime 141

4. How Far Is Bhopal? Inconvenient
Forums and Corporate Comparison 195

Epilogue: Fixing the World 259

Acknowledgments 265

Notes 267

Bibliography 303

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Wenzel Jennifer:

Jennifer Wenzel is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (Chicago and KwaZulu-Natal, 2009). With Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger, she co- edited Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment (Fordham, 2017).Jennifer Wenzel is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (Chicago and KwaZulu-Natal, 2009). With Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger, she co- edited Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment (Fordham, 2017).