Book contents
- A Global History of Literature and the Environment
- A Global History of Literature and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Major Works Discussed
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II The Development of Humanism and the Industrial Age
- Part III The Anthropocene
- Chapter 15 Climate and Culture in Australia and New Zealand
- Chapter 16 Modern English Fiction
- Chapter 17 Ecological Thought and Literature in Europe and Germany
- Chapter 18 From Birds and Trees to Texts: An Ecosemiotic Look at Estonian Nature Writing
- Chapter 19 Contemporary British Poetry and the Environment
- Chapter 20 Rescuing Nature from the Nation: Ecocritical (Un)Consciousness in Modern Chinese Culture
- Chapter 21 Eating Life at a Contaminated Table: The Narrative Significance of Toxic Meals in Contemporary Japan
- Chapter 22 Commodity Frontiers, Caribbean Natures, and the Aesthetics of Ecological Revolution in Trinidadian Literature
- Chapter 23 Petro-Violence and the Act of Bearing Witness in Contemporary Nigerian Literature
- Chapter 24 Black Ants and Bones: Nehruvian Science and Third-World Environment in the Fiction of Satyajit Ray
- Chapter 25 Brazilian Women Poets on Gender, Nature, and the Body
- Chapter 26 Can Environmental Imagination Save the World?
- Further Readings
- Index
Chapter 23 - Petro-Violence and the Act of Bearing Witness in Contemporary Nigerian Literature
from Part III - The Anthropocene
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017
- A Global History of Literature and the Environment
- A Global History of Literature and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Major Works Discussed
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II The Development of Humanism and the Industrial Age
- Part III The Anthropocene
- Chapter 15 Climate and Culture in Australia and New Zealand
- Chapter 16 Modern English Fiction
- Chapter 17 Ecological Thought and Literature in Europe and Germany
- Chapter 18 From Birds and Trees to Texts: An Ecosemiotic Look at Estonian Nature Writing
- Chapter 19 Contemporary British Poetry and the Environment
- Chapter 20 Rescuing Nature from the Nation: Ecocritical (Un)Consciousness in Modern Chinese Culture
- Chapter 21 Eating Life at a Contaminated Table: The Narrative Significance of Toxic Meals in Contemporary Japan
- Chapter 22 Commodity Frontiers, Caribbean Natures, and the Aesthetics of Ecological Revolution in Trinidadian Literature
- Chapter 23 Petro-Violence and the Act of Bearing Witness in Contemporary Nigerian Literature
- Chapter 24 Black Ants and Bones: Nehruvian Science and Third-World Environment in the Fiction of Satyajit Ray
- Chapter 25 Brazilian Women Poets on Gender, Nature, and the Body
- Chapter 26 Can Environmental Imagination Save the World?
- Further Readings
- Index
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- A Global History of Literature and the Environment , pp. 363 - 376Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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