Chapter 1 Thinking about Transcultural Ecocriticism: Space, Scale and Translation Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney PART A: Planetary Localities Chapter 2 Urban Narrative and Climate Change Ursula K. Heise Chapter 3 Scaling Down Our Imagination of the Human: Ted Chiang and the Fable of Extinction Chris Danta Chapter 4 ‘Re-enchanting the world’ from Mozambique: the African Anthropocene and Mia Couto’s poetics of the planet Meg Samuelson Chapter 5 Ecological Imaginations in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction Mengtian Sun PART B: Beyond the Romantic Frontier Chapter 6 The Colonial Translation of Natures Alan Bewell Chapter 7 Sensing Empire: Travel Writing, Picturesque Taste and British Perceptions of the Indian Sensory Environment Peter Denney Chapter 8 The Dark Side of Romantic Dendrophilia Ve-Yin Tee Chapter 9 Shaping Selves and Spaces: Romanticism, Botany and South-West Western Australia Jessica White PART C: Decolonial Poetics Chapter 10 Transcultural Ecopoetics and Decoloniality in meenamatta lena puellakanny: Meenamatta Water Country Discussion Peter Minter Chapter 11 Theorising Decolonised Literary Environments Stephen Muecke Chapter 12 Placing Invisible Women: Environment, Space and Power in Two Works by Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim Maia Gunn Watkinson Chapter 13 Geoterritorial Island Poetics, or Transcultural Composition with a Wetland in Southern Chile Stuart Cooke, with Juan Paulo Huirimilla Oyarzo Index

Containing essays predominantly by Australians but including scholarship from around the Pacific Rim and beyond, Transcultural Ecocriticism illuminates the environmental dimensions of literary works from Vietnam, Mozambique, China, the U.S., Chile, Britain, and India, as well as Australia, with generous representation of Indigenous cultures. The genres considered are also diverse, as the authors examine the resources for environmentalism and environmental justice of fables, fantasy, science fiction, oral traditions, travel writing, novels, and poems. The thinking here is indeed transcultural, linking carefully situated knowledges to one another as well as to global concerns and planetary responsibilities. Such bringing together of localized particularities with large-scale thinking about global crises, deep time, and planetary space is precisely what’s needed in the environmental humanities now. A section of essays on Romanticism valuably highlights intersections of Romantic thinking about nature with colonial oppression, while another cluster of essays explores recent decolonial projects. Several of these present groundbreaking transcultural collaborations between Anglo-Australian and Indigenous (Aboriginal, Mapuche) artists. These exciting projects demonstrate the transformative and liberatory potential of opening to the eco-philosophies of other cultures. As readers of this important collection are introduced to works and traditions of literature they had not previously known, they will gain appreciation for the powerful resources offered by transcultural ecocriticism, especially those in which Indigenous onto-ecologies are at play, for responding, as Peter Minter observes, “to climate change and, among other things, its liability to regimes of coloniality.”