Postcolonial ecologies: literatures of the environment

Toward an aesthetics of the Earth / Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley.

Cultivating Place.

Cultivating community: counterlandscaping in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss / Jill Didur

Haiti's elusive paradise / LeGrace Benson

Toward a Caribbean ecopoetics: Derek Walcott's language of plants / Elaine Savory.

Forest Fictions.

Deforestation and the yearning for lost landscapes in Caribbean literatures / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

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Postcolonial ecology of the new world baroque: Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps / George B. Handley

Forest fictions and ecological crises: reading the politics of survival in Mahasweta Devi's "Dhowli" / Jennifer Wenzel.

The Lives of (Nonhuman) Animals.

Stranger in the eco-village: environmental time, race, and ecologies of looking / Rob Nixon

What the whales would tell us: cetacean communication in novels by Witi Ihimaera, Linda Hogan, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh / Jonathan Steinwand

Compassion, commodification, and The Lives of Animals: J.M. Coetzee's recent fiction / Allison Carruth

"Tomorrow there will be more of us" : toxic postcoloniality in Animal's People / Pablo Mukherjee.

Militourism.

Heliotropes: solar ecologies and Pacific radiations / Elizabeth DeLoughrey

Activating voice, body, and place: Kanaka Maoli and Ma'ohi writings for Kaho'olawe and Moruroa / Dina El Dessouky

"Out of this great tragedy will come a world class tourism destination" : disaster, ecology, and a post-tsunami tourism development in Sri Lanka / Anthony Carrigan

In place: tourism, cosmopolitan bioregionalism, and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness / Byron Caminero-Santangelo.