Post Green

Literature, Culture, and the Environment

Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Animesh Roy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-4790-8 (ISBN)

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This book proposes a paradigm shift in contemporary ecocritical scholarship, from radical green politics to post-green. It examines multicultural literature to transcend ethnic and national boundaries, thereby voicing for a multiplicity of human experiences in relation to an eco-globalist imagination.

The idea in Post Green: Literature, Culture, and the 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 human-centered limitations of the green approaches and recognising the immense possibilities and holistic perspectives that a symbiotic human-nature perspective offers. 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 former 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 Yazgünoglu
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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Co-Autor	Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Animesh Roy, Oluseye Abiodun Babatunde
Zusatzinfo	1 BW Illustration
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 239 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-6669-4790-3 / 1666947903
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-4790-8 / 9781666947908
Zustand	Neuware