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 Yazguenoglu 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
