Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics & World Narratives

Book Overview

Postcolonial Green brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Since its inception, ecocriticism has been accused of being inattentive to the complexities that colonialism poses for ideas of nature and environmentalism. Postcolonial discourse, on the other hand, has been so immersed in theoretical questions of nationalism and identity that it has been seen as ignoring environmental or ecological concerns. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813930014
• ISBN13: 9780813930015
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"