Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
	Acknowledgements for Chapter 13
Chapter 1: Thinking about transcultural ecocriticism: Space, scale and translation
	Notes
Part 1: Planetary localities
	Chapter 2: Urban narrative and climate change
		Drowning cities: An aquatic anatomy
		Submarine surrealism: Nước 2030
		Urban amphibiguity: New York 2140
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Scaling down our imagination of the human: Ted Chiang and the fable of extinction
		Scale effects
		The non-human perspective
		Ted Chiang’s ‘The Great Silence’
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: ‘Re-enchanting the world’ from Mozambique: The African Anthropocene and Mia Couto’s poetics of the planet
		Recomposing ‘the sacred web’ amid a ‘harvest of death’
		The eviscerated earth and re-animated planet
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Ecological imaginations in contemporary Chinese science fiction
		Chen Qiufan and the global cycle of waste
		Han Song and The Red Sea
		An alien self in an alien world
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part 2: Beyond the romantic frontier
	Chapter 6: The colonial translation of natures
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: Sensing empire: Travel writing, picturesque taste and British perceptions of the Indian sensory environment
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: The dark side of romantic dendrophilia
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Shaping selves and spaces: Romanticism, botany and south-west Western Australia
		‘Lost to the Sight’
		Romantic visions
		Translocation
		Shipping and seeds
		Precision and poetry
		Shaping a self
		Extinction and erasure
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part 3: Decolonial poetics
	Chapter 10: Transcultural ecopoetics and decoloniality in meenamatta lena narla puellakanny: Meenamatta Water Country Discussion
		A transcultural ecopoetic event
		Transcultural ecopoetics and decoloniality
		meenamatta lena narla puellakanny: Meenamatta Water Country Discussion
		‘the blood juice cloud’: A ‘Key to writing’
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: Theorizing decolonized literary environments
		Extensions of the human
		Oral poetics
		The autonomy of the aesthetic
		The global dimension
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Placing invisible women: Environment, space and power in two works by Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim
		Historical, political and cultural contexts
		Between anthropological discourse and ethnocentric agendas: Forest as Maya space
		Recuerdos del corazón de la montaña: Forest as female space
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Geoterritorial island poetics, or transcultural composition with a wetland in southern Chile
		Introducing a wetland
		Poetics and ethnography: Theory
		Poetics and ethnography: Practice
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index