Ecological Interconnections

Critical Readings on Ethics, Sustainability, and Interspecies Communication in Literature and Culture

Shruti Das, Mridul Bordoloi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-7388-4 (ISBN)

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This book argues that literature and cultural studies are crucial for understanding ecological issues, promoting sustainability, and fostering interspecies communication. It further advocates for a practical shift from theory to action, emphasizing the interconnectedness of human and non-human life forms.

Ecological Interconnections: Critical Readings on Ethics, Sustainability and Interspecies Communication in Literature and Culture argues that literature and cultural studies are vital tools for understanding and addressing ecological issues. This edited book of sixteen essays explores how literary texts and cultural iconography can highlight ecological ethics, promote sustainability, and enhance interspecies communication. By critiquing anthropocentric perspectives and emphasizing non-human ecologies, the book explores the importance of deep ecology and ecoprecarity in contemporary discourse.

Divided into three sections—"Interspecies Communication and Intersection," "Eco-ethical Intersection and Responsibility," and "Towards Ecological Sustainability"—the essays advocate for a practical shift from theoretical considerations to active ecological commitment. The book demonstrates that literature can cultivate eco-consciousness and empathy, fostering sustainable coexistence. Through its interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the interconnectedness of human and non-human life, making it an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and eco-conscious individuals.

Shruti Das is professor and head of the Post Graduate Department of English and director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Berhampur University. Mridul Bordoloi is professor and head of the Department of English at Dibrugarh University.

Contents

Foreword

Richard Kerridge

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Shruti Das and Mridul Bordolai

Part I: Interspecies Communication and Intersection

Chapter1: Fungal Friends: The Parable of the Mushroom in Canadian Literature

Erin Samant

Chapter 2 : Spiral of Destruction: War, Silence, and Environment in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Ike’s Sunset at Dawn

Thomas Jay Lynn

Chapter 3: Stone and Rocks in Tribal Folk Imagination: A Study with Reference to Folktales and Traditions from Northeast India

Arzuman Ara

Chapter 4: Telluric Aesthetics in Nina Bouraoui’s Le Jourdu Séisme: From the Cartography of Memory to the Seismic Knowledge of the Body

Azzeddine Bouhassoun

Part II: Eco-ethical Intersection and Responsibility

Chapter 5: Ancient Indic Wisdom Inherent in the Concept of Aprigraha as Eco-ethics and Environmental Concerns Today

Jagriti Upadhyaya

Chapter 6: The Postsecular Ecology of the Pynchon verse: Gravity’s Rainbow in Translation

Łukasz Barciński

Chapter 7: Eco-wokeism, Eco-justice, and Eco-precarity: Critical Reading of Assamese Poetry and Short Stories

Mridul Bordoloi

Chapter 8: The Posthuman Condition and Ecological Ethics

Shruti Das

Chapter 9: An Eco-thealogical Analysis of ŚāktaTantra with Reference to the Myths of Two Tantric Goddesses

Sudipta Chakraborty

Chapter 10: The Surreal Symphony: Interweaving Nature, Culture, Myth and Human Psyche in Durga Puja

Ashes Gupta

Chapter11: Trade in Exotics and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century British Identities

Saswati Halder and Md. Shahnawaz

PartIII:TowardsEcologicalSustainability

Chapter 12: Animals and the Empire: The Representation of Wildlife in Selected Colonial Travelogues on Assam

Akash Borchetia

Chapter 13: Interspecies Ecologies, Rural Communities, and the Human-Horse Relationship: A View from Brazil

Miriam Adelman

Chapter 14: The Hidden Life of Mosses: Lessons in Resilience and Resistance in Liz Ziemska’s Short Story Hunt Relic

Patrycja Austin

Chapter 15: Sustaining in the Wilderness: An Ecopsychological Exploration of Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds

Ranjit Mandal and Shruti Das

Chapter 16: “When We Cease to Understand the World”: Place, Possible and Real, in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky

Kasturi Mukherjee

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2024
Co-Autor	Shruti Das, Mridul Bordoloi, Miriam Adelman
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-6669-7388-2 / 1666973882
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-7388-4 / 9781666973884
Zustand	Neuware