Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the
20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and
settler colonies such as Canada and Australia, Pramod K. Nayar maps a
poetry of ecological care, vulnerability and resilience.
While environmental fiction has been widely studied, environmental
poetry has not received the same level of attention. In _Postcolonial
Poetry and the Environment_, Nayar studies the work of over 50 poets
from the Global South and the formerly colonized, including John
Kinsella, Tanure Ojaide, Linda Hogan, Kofi Awonoor, Okot p'Bitek, Ben
Okri, and Sherwin Bitsui. He traces an ecological consciousness that
cuts across human and nonhuman, living and non-living domains. This
book is interested in the making, unmaking and remaking of worlds and
meanings in the age of cataclysmic climate shifts, while aware of the
histories that fashioned the planet in unjust and unequal ways, and to
which the poets bear witness, as well as proposing alternative ways of
seeing and meaning-making.
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Place, Precarity and Justice
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350499096
Publisert
2025
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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