Overview
- Makes a distinctive intervention into the fiercely contested field of world literature via environmental studies
- Brings to attention a large corpus of understudied and little known writing, including proletarian novels and poetry from the UK and early Trinidadian fiction
- Closely analyses the literary traditions of three distinct geopolitical locations from a comparative perspective
Part of the book series: New Comparisons in World Literature (NCWL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity frontiers. Examining the sugar, cacao, coal, and oil frontiers in Trinidad, Brazil, and Britain, World Literature and Ecology shows how literary texts have registered the relationship between the re-making of biophysical natures and struggles around class, race, and gender. It combines a materialist theory of world-literature with the insights of the world-ecology perspective to generate compelling new readings of writers such as Rhys Davies, Yseult Bridges, Lewis Jones, José Lins do Rego, Ellen Wilkinson, Jorge Amado, Gwyn Thomas, and Ralph de Boissière. The book represents a timely intervention into a series of field-defining debates around peripheral realisms and modernisms, ecocriticism, and the energy humanities.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Niblett is Associate Professor in Modern World Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. He has written extensively on world literature, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism. His previous books include The Caribbean Novel since 1945 (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: World Literature and Ecology
Book Subtitle: The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1950
Authors: Michael Niblett
Series Title: New Comparisons in World Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38581-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38580-4Published: 13 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38583-5Published: 13 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38581-1Published: 12 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6095
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6109
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 259
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Comparative Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature