Environmentalism in literature

Aspects écocritiques de l'imaginaire africain

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Le rapprochement entre l'écocritique et la pensée postcoloniale exige la remise en question de certains lieux communs sur l'ordre (post)colonial et la protection de l'environnement. Les sociétés précoloniales étaient-elles dépourvues de conscience écologique? L'engagement écolog…

Aspects écocritiques de l'imaginaire africain

by Lassi, Étienne-Marie

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Le rapprochement entre l'écocritique et la pensée postcoloniale exige la remise en question de certain lieux communs sur l'ordre (post)colonial et la protection de l'environnement. Les sociétés précoloniales étaient-elles dépourvues de conscience écologique? L'engagement écologi…

Aspects écocritiques de l'imaginaire africain

by Lassi, Étienne-Marie

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Le rapprochement entre l'écocritique et la pensée postcoloniale exige la remise en question de certain lieux communs sur l'ordre (post)colonial et la protection de l'environnement. Les sociétés précoloniales étaient-elles dépourvues de conscience écologique? L'engagement écologi…

Aspects écocritiques de l'imaginaire africain

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It is important to question some recurrent commonplaces about the (post)colonial order and the preservation of the environment if one wants to reconcile ecocriticism and postcolonial theories. For instance, were pre-colonial societies devoid of ecological awareness? Is the envir…

Encyclopedia of the environment in American literature

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This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and literary entries on material from e…

Encyclopedia of the environment in American literature

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"This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (broadly defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and literary entries on materi…

Encyclopedia of the environment in American literature

by Hamilton, Geoff

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"This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (broadly defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and literary entries on materi…

Encyclopedia of the environment in American literature

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"This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (broadly defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and literary entries on materi…

Encyclopedia of the environment in American literature

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"This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and literary entries on material from …

Fictional environments: mimesis, deforestation, and development in Latin …

by SARAMAGO, VICTORIA

fromFlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)

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""Fictional environments..." investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting repres…

Fictional environments: mimesis, deforestation, and development in Latin …

by SARAMAGO, VICTORIA

fromFlashPoints

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Introduction -- Conservation -- The Sertão Reconstructed: João Guimarães Rosa's Grande sertão: Veredas -- Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier's Gran Sabana -- Development -- Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary a…

Fictional environments: mimesis, deforestation, and development in Latin …

by SARAMAGO, VICTORIA

fromFlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)

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"Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments"--

Fictional environments: mimesis, deforestation, and development in Latin …

by SARAMAGO, VICTORIA

fromFlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)

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"Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments"--

EnvironMentality: ecocriticism and the event of postcolonial fiction

by Bartosch, Roman

fromNature, culture and literature

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This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluating concepts of nature and animality, describing one's individual environment as the starting point for such negotiations. It employs the notion of the 'literary event' to discuss…

Creature discomfort: fauna-criticism, ethics, and the representation o…

by DeVries, Scott M.

fromCritical animal studies

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In 'Creature discomfort: Fauna-criticism, ethics, and the representation of animals in Spanish American fiction and poetry', Scott M. DeVries uncovers a tradition in Spanish American literature where animal-ethical representations anticipate many of the most pressing concerns fr…