Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
About the Book Series
Since the dawn of human artistic and cultural expression, the natural world and our complex and often vexed relationships with the other-than-human have been essential themes in such expression. This series seeks to offer an encompassing approach to literary explorations of environmental experiences and ideas, reaching from the earliest known literatures to the twenty-first century and accounting for vernacular approaches throughout the world. In recent decades, it has become clear that highly localized, non-Western forms of literary expression and scholarly analysis have much to contribute to ecocritical understanding—such studies, as well as examinations of European and North American literatures, are encouraged. Comparative treatments of literary works from different cultures, cultural expression in various media (including literature and connections with visual and performing arts, ecocinema, music, videogames, and material culture), and interdisciplinary scholarly methodologies would be ideal contributions to the series. What are the lessons regarding human-animal kinship that can be gleaned from indigenous songs in Africa, Amazonia, Oceania, the Americas, and other regions of the world? Which discourses of toxicity in the urban centers of contemporary East Asia and the post-industrial brownscapes of Europe and America might gain traction as we seek to balance human and ecological health and robust economies? What are some of the Third World expressions of postcolonial ecocriticism, posthumanism, material ecocriticism, gender-based ecocriticism, ecopoetics, and other avant-garde trends? How do basic concepts such as "wilderness" or "animal rights" or "pollution" find expression in diverse environmental voices and become imbricated with questions of caste, class, gender, politics, and ethnicity? The global circulation of culturally diverse texts provides resources for understanding and engaging with the environmental crisis. This series aims to provide a home for projects demonstrating both traditional and experimental approaches in environmental literary studies.
Series Editors:
Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, USA
Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Previous Editors:
Matthew Wynn Sivils, Iowa State University, USA
Water Stories in the Anthropocene: Anglophone Climate-Change Fiction
1st Edition
By Angelo Monaco
October 21, 2024
Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as it poses a myriad of economic, scientific, political and cultural challenges in the age of the Anthropocene. In all its forms and manifestations, climate change is primarily a water ...
Oil and Modern World Dramas: From Petro-Mania to Petro-Melancholia
1st Edition
By Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
October 09, 2024
The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures. Through close analysis, Fakhrkonandeh ...
Contagion Narratives: The Society, Culture and Ecology of the Global South
1st Edition
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By R. Sreejith Varma, Ajanta Sircar
August 26, 2024
This volume is a collection of ten essays that direct their gaze to the unfolding of contagions in the non-classical contexts of Asia and Africa. Or, to borrow from the title of one of Partha Chatterjee’s books, they are reflections on the pandemic in most of the world. Featuring many scholars (of ...
Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity
1st Edition
By Pramod K. Nayar
August 26, 2024
Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events. Examining multiple discourses and textual ...
Religion, Narrative, and the Environmental Humanities: Bridging the Rhetoric Gap
1st Edition
By Matthew Newcomb
August 26, 2024
Religion, Narrative, and the Environmental Humanities provides a fresh look at rhetoric, religion, and environmental humanities through narratives of evangelical culture, analyses of evangelical writing, and their connection to environmental topics. This volume aims to present a cultural ...
Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives about the Environmental Collapse
1st Edition
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By Helena Duffy, Katarina Leppänen
May 31, 2024
How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of...
D. H. Lawrence, Ecofeminism and Nature
1st Edition
By Terry Gifford
May 27, 2024
Shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Prize for Best Academic Monograph This is the first ecocritical book on the works of D. H. Lawrence and also the first to consider the links between nature and gender in the poetry and the novels. In his search for a balanced relationship between male and female ...
Anthropocene Ecologies of Food: Notes from the Global South
1st Edition
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By Simon C. Estok, S. Susan Deborah, Rayson K. Alex
January 29, 2024
Anthropocene Ecologies of Food provides a detailed exploration of cross-cultural aspects of food production, culinary practices, and their ecological underpinning in culture. The authors draw connections between humans and the entire process of global food production, focusing on the broad ...
Literature Beyond the Human: Post-Anthropocentric Brazil
1st Edition
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By Luca Bacchini, Victoria Saramago
January 29, 2024
How can Clarice Lispector’s writings help us make sense of the Anthropocene? How does race intersect with the treatment of animals in the works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis? What can Indigenous philosopher and leader Ailton Krenak teach us about the relationship between environmental ...
The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophie Chiari
January 29, 2024
This book addresses the concept of ‘disaster’ through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare’s age, which was an era of colonisation, certainly marked a turning point in men and women’s relations with nature, the present times seem to announce the ...
Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism
1st Edition
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By Marco Caracciolo, Marlene Karlsson Marcussen, David Rodriguez
May 31, 2023
Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience of space:...
The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature
1st Edition
By Victoria Bladen
May 31, 2023
The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature explores the vital motif of the tree of life and what it meant to early modern writers who drew from its long histories in biblical, classical and folkloric contexts, giving rise to a language of trees, an arboreal aesthetics. An ...