Environmental Postcolonialism: A Literary Response is an academic investigation of the environmental repercussions of colonial destruction. This volume addresses the complex interplay between postcolonialism and environmental discourse through literature produced in the ex-colonies. This literature is read from the standpoint of ex-colonies within their human and non-human context. The primary objective of this volume is to scrutinize environmental concerns in the light of postcolonial theory, and so it examines works of art from the twin perspective of eco-criticism and postcolonialism which illuminates and underscores how colonizers destroyed and interfered with both nature and culture. Through discussing the intersecting layers of ecocriticism and postcolonial criticism, the volume gestures to new directions and generates a hopeful vision of a decolonized world.
Chapter 1: Introduction by Shubhanku Kochar and M. Anjum Khan Chapter 2: "Transformation is the Rule of Life": Environment and the Search for Utopia in The Hungry Tide by Suzy Woltmann Chapter 3: Cultural Nationalism and Sacred Groves of Kerala by Anupama Nayar Chapter 4: Politics, Oil and Theatre in Africa by Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah Chapter 5: Through the Postcolonial Lens: Reading the Environment in Narratives from India's North East by Kalpana Bora Barman Chapter 6: "Aesthetics of Belonging": Construction of a Postcolonial Landscape in Daud Kamal's Poetry by Humaira Riaz Chapter 7: I am a Tree Leaning: Neo-colonialism, Eco-consciousness and the Decolonized Self in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing by Anik Sarkar Chapter 8: For Appearances Must Deceive: Misreading the Environment in Days and Nights in the Forest and its Cinematic Adaptation by Chinmaya Lal Thakur Chapter 9: Postcolonial Ecology and Representation: Exploring 'Ashani Sanket' as an Eco-Film by Neepa Sarkar Chapter 10: Land, Labor, and Family: The Impact of US Colonization on Puerto Rico in Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican by Renee Latchman Chapter 11: 'Coloniality' of Humans and the Ecology: An Eco-critical Reading of Shubhangi Swarup's Latitudes of Longing by Risha Baruah Chapter 12: Women and Power: Digital Cameras in Postcolonial Caribbean Spaces in Literature by Denise M. Jarrett Chapter 13: Nature and Resistance in Coetzee And Abani: The Transcoporeal In African Fiction by Puja SenMajumdar Chapter 14: Colonialism, Capitalism and Nature: A Study of Alex Haley's Roots and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood by Shivani Duggal Chapter 15: Beyond the Dichotomy of Humans and Animals: Situating Ecology in Coetzee's Writings by Bipasha Mandal Chapter 16: Provincializing Ecocriticism: Postcolonial Ecocritical Thoughts and Environmental-Historical Difference by Animesh Roy About the Contributors
