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Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies. By examining these literatures across a range of geographical locations and historical periods - from Romantic period travel writing to Chinese science fiction and Aboriginal Australian poetry - the book makes a compelling case for the need for ecocriticism to competently translate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous, planetary and local, and contemporary and pre-modern perspectives. Leading scholars from Australasia and North America explore links between Indigenous knowledges, Romanticism, globalisation, avant-garde poetics and critical theory in order to chart tensions as well as affinities between these discourses in a variety of genres of environmental representation, including science fiction, poetry, colonial natural history and oral narrative.
Contents
Chapter 1
Thinking about Transcultural Ecocriticism: Space, Scale and Translation
Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney
PART A: Planetary Localities
Chapter 2
Urban Narrative and Climate Change
Ursula K. Heise
Chapter 3
Scaling Down Our Imagination of the Human: Ted Chiang and the Fable of Extinction
Chris Danta
Chapter 4
'Re-enchanting the world' from Mozambique: the African Anthropocene and Mia Couto's poetics of the planet
Meg Samuelson
Chapter 5
Ecological Imaginations in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
Mengtian Sun
PART B: Beyond the Romantic Frontier
Chapter 6
The Colonial Translation of Natures
Alan Bewell
Chapter 7
Sensing Empire: Travel Writing, Picturesque Taste and British Perceptions of the Indian Sensory Environment
Peter Denney
Chapter 8
The Dark Side of Romantic Dendrophilia
Ve-Yin Tee
Chapter 9
Shaping Selves and Spaces: Romanticism, Botany and South-West Western Australia
Jessica White
PART C: Decolonial Poetics
Chapter 10
Transcultural Ecopoetics and Decoloniality in meenamatta lena puellakanny: Meenamatta Water Country Discussion
Peter Minter
Chapter 11
Theorising Decolonised Literary Environments
Stephen Muecke
Chapter 12
Placing Invisible Women: Environment, Space and Power in Two Works by Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim
Maia Gunn Watkinson
Chapter 13
Geoterritorial Island Poetics, or Transcultural Composition with a Wetland in Southern Chile
Stuart Cooke, with Juan Paulo Huirimilla Oyarzo
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