Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media
- Editor: Cajetan Iheka
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2021
- ISBN: 9781603295543 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 9781603295536 (Hardcover)
"This is a very exciting and much-needed addition to scholarly and pedagogical resources for the postcolonial environmental humanities."
—Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
Taking up the idea that teaching is a political act, this collection of essays reflects on recent trends in ecocriticism and the implications for pedagogy. Focusing on a diverse set of literature and media, the book also provides background on historical and theoretical issues that animate the field of postcolonial ecocriticism. The scope is broad, encompassing not only the Global South but also parts of the Global North that have been subject to environmental degradation as a result of colonial practices. Considering both the climate crisis and the crisis in the humanities, the volume navigates theoretical resources, contextual scaffolding, classroom activities, assessment, and pedagogical possibilities and challenges. Essays are grounded in environmental justice and the project to decolonize the classroom, addressing works from Africa, New Zealand, Asia, and Latin America and issues such as queer ecofeminism, disability, Latinx literary production, animal studies, interdisciplinarity, and working with environmental justice organizations.
Acknowledgments (xi)
Foreword (xiii)
Introduction (1)
Part I: Background and Theoretical Foundations
Environmental Justice and Postcolonial Ecocriticism (23)
Indigenous Cosmologies (32)
The Queer Ecofeminist Politics of Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (44)
Finding Balance: Disability and the Ecocritical Lens (55)
Place and Postcolonial Megacities: A Project-Based Approach (68)
Part II: Global Ecologies and Uneven Flows
Decolonizing the Environmental Classroom: Increasing Student Agency through a Journal Assignment (81)
Teaching Postcolonial Climate Fiction (92)
Toward an Interdisciplinary Symbiosis in Environmental Literary Pedagogy (104)
Part III: Regional and Local Perspectives
Postcolonial Cartographies, Environmental Humanities, and Sea Level Rise (119)
Decolonial Possibilities in an Introductory Environmental Humanities Classroom (129)
Ecocriticism and Environmental Justice in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (141)
Humane Education and Latin American / Latinx Cultural Production (153)
Teaching East Asian Ecocriticisms (164)
Part IV: The Lives of Animals
Teaching Multispecies Entanglement (181)
The Lives of Animals in Postcolonial Cultural Production (198)
Amit R. Baishya
Postcolonial Animal Studies: Animal and Animist Codes (210)
Part V: Extractive Ecologies, Environmental Justice, and Postcolonial Ecomedia
Examining Speculative Petrofiction through Journaling and Blogging (227)
The Colonial Relation between Digitization and Migration in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (240)
For a dEcolonization of the Caribbean: Edouard Duval-Carrié’s Imagined Landscapes (251)
The Visuality of Environmental Disasters (263)
Colonize Mars: Precolonial Pedagogies for Anticolonial Praxis (273)
Postcolonial Environmental Fiction, Media, and Pedagogy in the North of the Global North (284)
Anthropocene Storytelling: Ecological Writing and Pedagogies of Planetary Change (298)
Part VI: Place-Based Approaches
Ecocriticism in Nigeria: Toward a Transformative Pedagogy (311)
Postcolonial Environmental Justice and Ken Saro-Wiwa in Malaysia (323)
Narrative Close Reading and Land Education: “On the Wings of This Prayer” and Medicine Walk (333)
Working with Environmental Justice Organizations in Postcolonial Environmental Literature Classes (346)
Web Resources (357)
Notes on Contributors (361)
