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100	1		_aWhittle, Matthew, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGlobal literature and the environment / _cMatthew Whittle and Jade Munslow Ong.
263			_a2407
264		1	_aAbingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _c[2025]
300			_axi, 214 pages; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aGlobal literature : twenty-first-century perspectives
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (201-203), and index.
505	0		_aEarth -- Water -- Air -- Life.
520			_a"Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the localized impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of imperialist-capitalism, exploring how literature helps us to imagine and create a habitable and just world for all forms of life. The four chapters are organised according to the elements of the climate system that are at risk. 'Earth' examines Caribbean, American, South African, and British literatures that explore how dominant human groups have exploited soils, minerals, metals, and oil in pursuit of economic aims. 'Water' engages with poetic representations of, and responses to, extraction, pollution, and global warming in the fresh- and saltwaters of Nigeria and the icescapes of Alaska. 'Air' analyses prose and poetry that depicts atmospheric pollution caused by gas flaring in the Niger Delta and the production of pesticides in India. 'Life' attends to the ways in which literature contextualizes the drivers of, and proposed solutions to, mass species extinction across North America, Africa, Australasia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. This accessible and engaging book explores novels, plays and poetry by writers including Octavia Butler, C.L.R. James, dg nanouk okpik, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Imbolo Mbue, Indra Sinha, Witi Ihimaera, J.M. Coetzee, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, amongst many others. It introduces readers to the concept of the Anthropocene alongside perspectives that challenge the assumption that the climate crisis is caused by an undifferentiated humanity. In doing so, the book draws on, and combines, a range of theoretical approaches, including postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, ecocriticism, cultural materialism, and animal studies"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aEcology in literature.
650		0	_aClimatic changes in literature.
650		0	_aGlobal environmental change in literature.
650		0	_aEcocriticism.
650		0	_aEnvironmental literature _xHistory and criticism.
700	1		_aMunslow Ong, Jade, _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aWhittle, Matthew. _tGlobal literature and the environment _dAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 _z9780429353352 _w(DLC) 2024006826
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