Environmental Justice Metafiction

Author : Tawhida Akhter,Tariq Ahmad Bhat
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781527580190

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Literature and Nature by Tawhida Akhter,Tariq Ahmad Bhat Pdf

During the last few decades, there has been remarkable progress in research on various aspects of literature and nature. Different fields have been explored in this regard, though there remain many fields yet to be explored. This book explores how nature plays an important role in the development of personality, looking at both its positive and negative effects. It also considers how literature has rightly portrayed the reality of a culture through its fictitious characters. The book will fulfil the needs of students, teachers, researchers, and all stakeholders who are engaged in eco-feministic studies.

Author : Nhemachena, Artwell,Kangira, Jairos
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956763948

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Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation by Nhemachena, Artwell,Kangira, Jairos Pdf

Contemporary scholarly discourses about decolonising materialities are taking two noticeable trajectories, the first trajectory privileges establishing “connections”, “relationships” and “associations” between human beings and nature. The second trajectory privileges restoration, restitution, reparations for colonial dispossessions, lootings and disinheritance. While the first trajectory presupposes that colonialism was merely about “separation”, “alienation”, and “disconnections” between human beings and nature, the second trajectory stresses the colonialists’ dispossession, disinheritance and privations of Africans. Drawing on contemporary discourses about materialities in relation to semiotics, (non-)representationalism, rhetoric, ecocriticism, territorialisation, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, translation, animism, science and technology studies, this book teases out the intellectually rutted terrain of African materialities. It argues that in a world of increasing impoverishment, the significance of materialities cannot be overemphasised: more so for the continent of Africa where impoverishment “materialises” in the midst of resource opulence. The book is a pacesetter in no holds barred interrogation of African materialities.

Author : Laura A. White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350091573

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Ecospectrality by Laura A. White Pdf

Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels. Analysing novels from across the world-including Australia, Nigeria, South Africa, India, and Jamaica, this book explores how these ghosts can help readers to perceive difficult-to-visualise environmental threats and access marginalised environmental knowledge. Instead of prompting fear, these hauntings foster understanding across species and generations to enable inclusive formulations of environmental justice. Drawing on the latest work in postcolonial ecocriticism, hauntology, and environmental philosophy and such literary texts as GraceLand, No Telephone to Heaven, The Rock Alphabet, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Ecospectrality is an essential read for anyone working in the environmental humanities today.

Author : Joni Adamson,Mei Mei Evans,Rachel Stein
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816522071

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The Environmental Justice Reader by Joni Adamson,Mei Mei Evans,Rachel Stein Pdf

A collection of essays on the environmental justice movement, examining the various ways that teaching, art, and political action affect change in environmental awareness and policies.

Author : Lance Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Communication
ISBN : 3030145735

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The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement by Lance Newman Pdf

The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement showcases environmental literature from writers who fought for women's rights, native rights, workers' power, and the abolition of slavery during the Romantic Era. Many Romantic texts take flight from society and enact solitary white male encounters with a feminine nature. However, the symbolic landscapes of Romanticism were often radicalized by writers like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, William Apess, George Copway, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lydia Maria Child, John Clare, and Henry Thoreau. These authors showed how the oppression of human beings and the exploitation of nature are the twin driving forces of capitalism and colonialism. In addition to spotlighting new kinds of environmental literature, this book also reinterprets familiar texts by figures like William Blake, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Walt Whitman, and it shows how these household figures were writing in conversation with their radical contemporaries.

Author : Rüdiger Ahrens,Florian Kläger,Klaus Stierstorfer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110532913

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Symbolism 17: Latina/o Literature by Rüdiger Ahrens,Florian Kläger,Klaus Stierstorfer Pdf

The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a comparative approach to literature in order to understand how migration and commodity flows impact aesthetic production and expressive practices. This special issue of Symbolism: An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics explores the trans-American dimensions of Latina/o literature in a trans-Atlantic context. Examining the theoretical implications suggested by the comparison of the global North-global South dynamics of material and aesthetic exchange, this volume highlights emergent Latina/o authors, texts, and methodologies of interest in for comparative literary studies. In the essays, literary scholars address questions of the transculturation, translation, and reception of Latina/o literature in the United States and Europe. In the interviews, emergent Latina/o authors speak to the processes of creative writing in a transnational context. This volume suggests how the trans-American dialogues found in contemporary Latina/o literature elucidates trans-Atlantic critical dialogues.

Author : Carmen Zamorano Llena,Jonas Stier,Billy Gray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000916898

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Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe by Carmen Zamorano Llena,Jonas Stier,Billy Gray Pdf

The accruement of crises over the last two decades, with their particular manifestations in the European context, has evoked the feeling of living in exceptional times, as captured in the recurrent claim that we live in the "age of anxiety." The main aim of this collection is to analyse, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the causes and consequences of the current dominance of the discourse of fear, anxiety, and crisis through the experience of distinct and often interdependent moral panics in twenty-first-century Europe. With its multidisciplinary approach, this volume sheds light on the need to view the interrelationship between different crises and their associated affects as crucial in attaining a more nuanced understanding of the aetiology and effects of the current "age of anxiety." This multidisciplinary scrutiny of the interrelationship of twenty-first-century fears, anxiety and crises signals an original engagement with these complex phenomena in order to make their emergence and profound effects on contemporary society more comprehensible. The timeliness of the thematic focus and the rigorous in-depth analyses make this collection relevant to students and academics within the fields of sociology, literary and cultural studies, political science and anthropology, as well as to those in European studies and global studies.

Author : Richard Hofrichter
Publisher : Philadelphia ; Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Ecofeminism
ISBN : 1550922122

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Toxic Struggles by Richard Hofrichter Pdf

Author : Robert Doyle Bullard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114524494

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The Quest for Environmental Justice by Robert Doyle Bullard Pdf

A new collection of essays capturing the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights abuses at the grassroots level around the world.

Author : Jeffrey Myers
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820327441

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Converging Stories by Jeffrey Myers Pdf

This book argues that in US literature, discourse on the themes of race and ecology is too narrowly focused on the twentieth century and does not adequately take into account how these themes are interrelated. This study broadens the field by looking at writings from the nineteenth century.

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824874056

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Karen Tei Yamashita by A. Robert Lee Pdf

Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, and Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory is the first anthology given over to Yamashita’s writing. It contains newly commissioned essays by established, international scholars; a recent interview with the author; a semiautobiographical keynote address delivered at an international conference that ruminates on her Japanese American heritage; and a full bibliography. The essays offer fresh and in-depth readings of the magic realist canvas of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990); the Japanese emigrant portraiture of Brazil-Maru (1992); Los Angeles as rambunctious geopolitical and transnational fulcrum of the Americas in Tropic of Orange (1997); the fraught relationship of Japanese and Brazilian heritage and labor in Circle K Cycles (2001); Asian American history and politics of the 1960s in I Hotel (2010); and Anime Wong (2014), a gallery of performativity illustrating the contested and inextricable nature of East and West. This essay-collection explores Yamashita’s use of the fantastical, the play of emerging transnational ethnicity, and the narrative tactics of reflexivity and bricolage in storytelling located on a continuum of the unique and the communal, of the past and the present, and that are mapped in various spatial and virtual realities.

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Sue Norton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030941666

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Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Sue Norton Pdf

This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to ‘canonical status’ and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and American studies, and to students in American literature and American studies courses.

Author : Jason Paolo Telles,John Charles Ryan,Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811911309

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Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia by Jason Paolo Telles,John Charles Ryan,Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach Pdf

This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing. It is divided into four sections: I. Activism, Environment, and Indigeneity; II. Political, Ecologies and Urban Spaces; III. Narratives, Discourses, and Aesthetics; and IV. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islands, covering topics such as broadcast media (radio and TV) and the environment; green cinema and ecodocumentaries, ecodigital art, digital environmental literature. It is of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners and scholars working in the area of humanities, media, communications, cultural studies, environmental humanities, environmental studies, and sustainability.

Author : Robin Truth Goodman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501371196

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Feminism as World Literature by Robin Truth Goodman Pdf

The conventional lineage of World Literature starts with Goethe and moves through Marx, Said, Moretti, and Damrosch, among others. What if there is another way to trace the lineage, starting with Simone de Beauvoir and moving through Hannah Arendt, Assia Djebar, Octavia Butler, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Gayatri Spivak? What ideas and issues get left out of the current foundations that have institutionalized World Literature, and what can be added, challenged, or changed with this tweaking of the referential terminology? Feminism as World Literature redefines the thematic and theoretical contents of World Literature in feminist terms as well as rethinking feminist terms, analyses, frameworks, and concepts in a World Literature context. Other ideas built into World Literature and its criticism are viewed here by feminist framings, including the environment, technology, immigration, translation, work, race, governance, image, sound, religion, affect, violence, media, future, and history. The authors recognize genres, strategies, and themes of World Literature that demonstrate feminism as integral to the world-making gestures of literary form and production. In other words, this volume looks to readings and modes of reading that expose how the historical worldliness of texts allows for feminist interventions that might not sit clearly or comfortably on the surfaces.

Author : BRUCE E. JOHANSEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8765115295

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ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA by BRUCE E. JOHANSEN Pdf