Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Local Natures, Global Responsibilities: An Introduction
(Re)Framing Ecocriticism(s): Topics, Theories and Transnational Tendencies
Vernon Gras: Dialogism as a Solution for the Present Obstacles to an Ecological Culture
Derek Barker: Green Fields: Ecocriticism in South Africa
Serenella Iovino: Ecocriticism and a Non-Anthropocentric Humanism: Reflections on Local Natures and Global Responsibilities
Alex Shishin: Utopian Ecology: Technology and Social Organization in Relation to Nature and Freedom
Emplotments of and Complots Against the Ecosystem
Jens Martin Gurr: Emplotting an Ecosystem: Amitav Gosh’s The Hungry Tide and the Question of Form in Ecocriticism
Nishi Pulugurtha: Refugees, Settlers and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Sissy Helff: Sea of Transformation: Re-Writing Australianness in the Light of Whaling
Kylie Crane: Tracking the Tassie Tiger: Extinction and Ethics in Julia Leigh’s The Hunter
Claudia Duppé: Asset or Home? Ecopolitical Ethics in Patricia Grace’s Potiki
Anke Uebel: Imaginary Restraints: Michael Crummey’s River Thieves and the Beothuk of Newfoundland
(De)Colonized Nature(s)
Astrid Feldbrügge: The Human and the Non-Human World in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness and The Whale Caller
Marion Fries-Dieckmann: “Castaways in the Very Heart of the City”: Island and Metropolis in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
Michael Mayer: When Trees Become Kings: Nature as a Decolonizing Force in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Silke Stroh: Towards a Postcolonial Environment? Nature, ‘Native’, and Nation in Scottish Representations of the Oil Industry
(Re)Framing Ecological Disasters
Mark A. McCutcheon: The Medium is … the Monster? Global Aftermathematics in Canadian Articulations of Frankenstein
Greg Garrard: Reading as an Animal: Ecocriticism and Darwinism in Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan
Giuseppina Botta: Faustian Dreams and Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Ingrid-Charlotte Wolter: Science as Deconstruction of Natural Identity: Arthur Conan Doyle’s “When the World Screamed” and Margaret
Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Nils Zumbansen and Marcel Fromme: Ecocatastrophes in Recent American (Non-)Fictional Texts and Films
Nicole Schröder: Framing Disaster: Images of Nature, Media, and Representational Strategies in Hollywood Disaster Movies
(Re)Negotiating Eth(n)ic Spaces
Sawako Taniyama: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Ice Palace”: Climate, Culture, and Stereotypes
Susanne Gruss: Sex and the City?: Ecofeminism and the Urban Experience in Angela Carter, Anne Enright and Bernardine Evaristo
Florian Niedlich: Travel as Transgression: Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom, J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K, and Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album
Ines Detmers: Global Minds and Local Mentalities: ‘Topographies of Terror’ in Salman Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown
Notes on Contributors