The disposition of nature : environmental crisis and world literature /

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 relationsh...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wenzel, Jennifer, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Reading for the planet
  • Citizens and consumers
  • Consumption for the common good? : commodity biography in an era of postconsumerism
  • Hijacking the imagination : how to tell the story of the Niger Delta
  • Resource logics and risk logics
  • From waste lands to wasted lives : enclosure as aesthetic regime and property regime
  • How far is Bhopal? : inconvenient forums and corporate comparison
  • Fixing the world.