Ecological Interconnections: Critical Readings on Ethics, Sustainability, and Interspecies Communication in Literature and Culture
Editat de Mridul Bordoloi, Shruti Das Contribuţii de Akash Borchetia, Arzuman Ara, Ashes Gupta, Azzeddine Bouhassoun, Erin Samant, MD. Shahnawaz, Jagriti Upadhyaya, Kasturi Mukherjee, Lukasz Barcinski, Miriam Adelman, Patrycja Austin, Ranjit Mandal, Saswati Halder, Sudipta Chakraborty, Thomas Jay Lynnen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 dec 2024
Divided into three sections-"Interspecies Communication and Intersection," "Eco-ethical Intersection and Responsibility," and "Towards Ecological Sustainability"-the essays advocate for a practical shift from theoretical considerations to active ecological commitment. The book demonstrates that literature can cultivate eco-consciousness and empathy, fostering sustainable coexistence. Through its interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the interconnectedness of human and non-human life, making it an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and eco-conscious individuals.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781666973884
ISBN-10: 1666973882
Pagini: 290
Ilustrații: 10 b/w photos; 1 table; 4 graphs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1666973882
Pagini: 290
Ilustrații: 10 b/w photos; 1 table; 4 graphs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Contents
Foreword
Richard Kerridge
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Shruti Das and Mridul Bordolai
Part I: Interspecies Communication and Intersection
Chapter1: Fungal Friends: The Parable of the Mushroom in Canadian Literature
Erin Samant
Chapter 2 : Spiral of Destruction: War, Silence, and Environment in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Ike's Sunset at Dawn
Thomas Jay Lynn
Chapter 3: Stone and Rocks in Tribal Folk Imagination: A Study with Reference to Folktales and Traditions from Northeast India
Arzuman Ara
Chapter 4: Telluric Aesthetics in Nina Bouraoui's Le Jourdu Séisme: From the Cartography of Memory to the Seismic Knowledge of the Body
Azzeddine Bouhassoun
Part II: Eco-ethical Intersection and Responsibility
Chapter 5: Ancient Indic Wisdom Inherent in the Concept of Aprigraha as Eco-ethics and Environmental Concerns Today
Jagriti Upadhyaya
Chapter 6: The Postsecular Ecology of the Pynchon verse: Gravity's Rainbow in Translation
Lukasz Barcinski
Chapter 7: Eco-wokeism, Eco-justice, and Eco-precarity: Critical Reading of Assamese Poetry and Short Stories
Mridul Bordoloi
Chapter 8: The Posthuman Condition and Ecological Ethics
Shruti Das
Chapter 9: An Eco-thealogical Analysis of S´aktaTantra with Reference to the Myths of Two Tantric Goddesses
Sudipta Chakraborty
Chapter 10: The Surreal Symphony: Interweaving Nature, Culture, Myth and Human Psyche in Durga Puja
Ashes Gupta
Chapter11: Trade in Exotics and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century British Identities
Saswati Halder and Md. Shahnawaz
PartIII:TowardsEcologicalSustainability
Chapter 12: Animals and the Empire: The Representation of Wildlife in Selected Colonial Travelogues on Assam
Akash Borchetia
Chapter 13: Interspecies Ecologies, Rural Communities, and the Human-Horse Relationship: A View from Brazil
Miriam Adelman
Chapter 14: The Hidden Life of Mosses: Lessons in Resilience and Resistance in Liz Ziemska's Short Story Hunt Relic
Patrycja Austin
Chapter 15: Sustaining in the Wilderness: An Ecopsychological Exploration of Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds
Ranjit Mandal and Shruti Das
Chapter 16: "When We Cease to Understand the World": Place, Possible and Real, in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
Kasturi Mukherjee
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Foreword
Richard Kerridge
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Shruti Das and Mridul Bordolai
Part I: Interspecies Communication and Intersection
Chapter1: Fungal Friends: The Parable of the Mushroom in Canadian Literature
Erin Samant
Chapter 2 : Spiral of Destruction: War, Silence, and Environment in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Ike's Sunset at Dawn
Thomas Jay Lynn
Chapter 3: Stone and Rocks in Tribal Folk Imagination: A Study with Reference to Folktales and Traditions from Northeast India
Arzuman Ara
Chapter 4: Telluric Aesthetics in Nina Bouraoui's Le Jourdu Séisme: From the Cartography of Memory to the Seismic Knowledge of the Body
Azzeddine Bouhassoun
Part II: Eco-ethical Intersection and Responsibility
Chapter 5: Ancient Indic Wisdom Inherent in the Concept of Aprigraha as Eco-ethics and Environmental Concerns Today
Jagriti Upadhyaya
Chapter 6: The Postsecular Ecology of the Pynchon verse: Gravity's Rainbow in Translation
Lukasz Barcinski
Chapter 7: Eco-wokeism, Eco-justice, and Eco-precarity: Critical Reading of Assamese Poetry and Short Stories
Mridul Bordoloi
Chapter 8: The Posthuman Condition and Ecological Ethics
Shruti Das
Chapter 9: An Eco-thealogical Analysis of S´aktaTantra with Reference to the Myths of Two Tantric Goddesses
Sudipta Chakraborty
Chapter 10: The Surreal Symphony: Interweaving Nature, Culture, Myth and Human Psyche in Durga Puja
Ashes Gupta
Chapter11: Trade in Exotics and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century British Identities
Saswati Halder and Md. Shahnawaz
PartIII:TowardsEcologicalSustainability
Chapter 12: Animals and the Empire: The Representation of Wildlife in Selected Colonial Travelogues on Assam
Akash Borchetia
Chapter 13: Interspecies Ecologies, Rural Communities, and the Human-Horse Relationship: A View from Brazil
Miriam Adelman
Chapter 14: The Hidden Life of Mosses: Lessons in Resilience and Resistance in Liz Ziemska's Short Story Hunt Relic
Patrycja Austin
Chapter 15: Sustaining in the Wilderness: An Ecopsychological Exploration of Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds
Ranjit Mandal and Shruti Das
Chapter 16: "When We Cease to Understand the World": Place, Possible and Real, in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
Kasturi Mukherjee
About the Editors
About the Contributors