Post Green

Literature, Culture, and the Environment

Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Animesh Roy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-4790-8 (ISBN)

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This book proposes a paradigm shift in contemporary ecocritical scholarship, from radical green politics to post-green. It examines multicultural literature to transcend ethnic and national boundaries, thereby voicing for a multiplicity of human experiences in relation to an eco-globalist imagination.

The idea in Post Green: Literature, Culture, and Environment is not to create another binary like East/West, but rather a call for a shift in the order of perception. The contributors signal a movement from the conventional understanding of green thinking--acknowledging both the limitations of the green approaches as well as to explore new and holistic perspectives on environmental stewardship. This book proposes to move beyond the monoculture of the mind toward a celebration of diversity and plurality. While the movement from red to green was a politics of difference, as essays in this book emphasize, the shift toward post green is based on an all-inclusive and holistic vision that contains within itself both difference and multiplicity, something that is quintessential for the stability of our ecosystem. Such affirmative bio-politics toward an alternative symbiosis challenges intellectual theorising, without minimizing the need for radical questioning. It urges the need to do away with disciplinary boundaries drawing hopes for a new spiritual geography of the mind to surface.

Murali Sivaramakrishnan is professor and head of the Department of English at Pondicherry University. Animesh Roy is assistant professor in the Department of English at St. Xavier’s College.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Philosophizing Post-Green: Re/Moving Borderlands-Beyond Modernity’s Last Post

Murali Sivaramakrishnan

1. Recalling Herbert Marcuse on Socialism’s Radical Goals Today

Charles Reitz

2. Aesthetics of Survival

K. Satchidanandan

3. Ghost God Dancing with the Bat, and Covid-19

Peter I-Min Huang

4. From a Mythic City to a Rubbish Metropolis: Urban Imaginaries of Istanbul in Contemporary Turkish Non/Fiction

Kerim Can Yazgünoğlu

5. Oil Ecology, The Niger Delta and The Crisis of Survival in Ogaga Ifowodo’s The Oil Lamp

Oluseye Abiodun Babatunde

6. Passionate Specificity

Ann Fisher-Wirth

7. The Alchemy of Inside and Outside: Feminism, Ecology and The Self in Kamala Das

Usha VT

8. Healing and Sweetening: Ted Hughes and the Regeneration of Elmet

Ann Skea

9. John Clare and the Horizon of Nature’s Mystery

Mihai A. Stroe

10. How Ideology has Driven Beauty from Ecocriticism and the Arts in General: The Allure of Oppositional Politics and Aesthetics

P. Quigley

11. Eco-phenomenology in Comparative Literature: Salvatore Quasimodo and Odysseus Elytis’ Eco-Poetics

Nikoleta Zampaki

12. Of The Forest: Ecology, Culture and History

Debarati Bandyopadhyay

13. A World of Many Minds: Toward a Post-green Vision of the Future

Jack Hunter

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	09.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Co-Autor	Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Animesh Roy, Oluseye Abiodun Babatunde
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 239 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-6669-4790-3 / 1666947903
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-4790-8 / 9781666947908
Zustand	Neuware