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The chapters trace themes such as counterlandscaping, forest fiction, ecological crises, and the treatment of nonhuman animals across diverse regions and authors. It also examines militarism, solar ecologies, Pacific radiations, and tourism after disaster, linking place, voice, bodies, and historical encounter to cultural and political survival.","Postcolonial Ecologies  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nPostcolonial Ecologies  \nLiteratures of the Environment  \nEdited by  \nElizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley  \nOxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence  \nin research, scholarship, and education.  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto  \nWith offices in  \nArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore  \nSouth Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2011 by Oxford University Press, Inc.  \nPublished by Oxford University Press, Inc.  \n198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 [www.oup.com](www.oup.com)  \nOxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nPostcolonial ecologies : literatures of the environment / edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nISBN 978-0-19-539442-9 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-19-539443-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)  \n1. Commonwealth literature (English)—History and criticism. 2. Ecology in literature.  \n3. Human ecology in literature. 4. Postcolonialism in literature. 5. Ecocriticism. I. DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967-II. Handley, George B., 1964-  \nPR9080 .5.P68 2010  \n820’.936—dc22 2010013325  \n1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2  \nPrinted in the United States of America on acid-free paper  \nContents  \nContributors vii  \nIntroduction: Toward an Aesthetics of the Earth 3  \nElizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley  \nPART I. CULTIVATING PLACE  \n1. Cultivating Community: Counterlandscaping in Kiran  \nDesai’s The Inheritance of Loss 43  \nJill Didur  \n2. Haiti’s Elusive Paradise 62  \nLeGrace Benson  \n3. Toward a Caribbean Ecopoetics: Derek Walcott’s Language  \nof Plants 80  \nElaine Savory  \nPART II. FOREST FICTIONS  \n4. Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in  \nCaribbean Literatures 99  \nLizabeth Paravisini-Gebert  \nvi Contents  \n5. The Postcolonial Ecology of the New World Baroque: Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps 117  \nGeorge B. Handley  \n6. Forest Fictions and Ecological Crises: Reading the Politics of Survival in Mahasweta Devi’s “Dhowli” 136  \nJennifer Wenzel  \nPART III. THE LIVES OF (NONHUMAN) ANIMALS  \n7. Stranger in the Eco-Village: Environmental Time, Race, and Ecologies of Looking 159  \nRob Nixon  \n8. What the Whales Would Tell Us: Cetacean Communication in Novels by Witi Ihimaera, Linda Hogan, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh 182  \nJonathan Steinwand  \n9. Compassion, Commodification, and The Lives of Animals:  \nJ. M. Coetzee’s Recent Fiction 200  \nAllison Carruth  \n10. “Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us”: Toxic Postcolonialityin Animal’s People 216  \nPablo Mukherjee  \nPART IV. MILITOURISM  \n11. Heliotropes: Solar Ecologies and Pacific Radiations 235 Elizabeth DeLoughrey  \n12. Activating Voice, Body, and Place: Kanaka Maoli and Ma‘ohi Writings for Kaho‘olawe and Moruroa 254  \nDina El Dessouky  \n13. “Out of This Great Tragedy Will Come a World Class Tourism Destination”: Disaster, Ecology, and Post-Tsunami Tourism Development in Sri Lanka 273  \nAnthony Carrigan  \n14. 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