The Caribbean aesthetics, world-ecology, politics /
"Bringing together the work of literary critics, social scientists, activists, and creative writers, this edited collection explores the complex relationships between environmental change, political struggle, and cultural production in the Caribbean. It ranges across the archipelago, with essay...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Campbell, Chris editor of compilation. Niblett, Michael, editor of compilation. |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016. |
| Series: | Postcolonialism across the disciplines ;
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Critical Environments: World-Ecology, World Literature, and the Caribbean
- Prologue: The Brutalization of Truth
- Catastrophes and Commodity Frontiers
- Chapter 1. The Political Ecology of Storms in Caribbean Literature
- Chapter 2. Zombies, Gender and World-Ecology: Gothic Narrative in the Work of Mayra Montero and Ana Lydia Vega
- Chapter 3. Gade nan mizè-a m tonbe: Vodou, the 2010 Earthquake, and Haiti's Environmental Catastrophe
- Ecological Revolutions and the Nature of Knowledge
- Chapter 4. 'The Abstract Globe in One's Head': Robert Schomburgk, Wilson Harris, and the Ecology of Modernism
- Chapter 5. Mining and Mastery: Ethnography and World-Ecology in the work of Charles Barrington Brown
- Chapter 6. Hegemony in Guyana: REDD-plus and State Control over Indigenous Peoples and Resources
- Economies of Extraction: Restructuring and Resistance
- Chapter 7. Ecopoetics of Pleasure and Power in Oonya Kempadoo's Tide Running
- Chapter 8. Jamaica and the Beast: Negril and the Tourist Landscape
- Chapter 9. Ecology, Identity, and Colonialism in Martinique: The Discourse of an Ecological NGO (1980-2011)
- Epilogue: Tingaling
- Index