Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English

The talk of a catastrophic contemporary environmental crisis is all around us. Yet the relationship between such a crises and literary and cultural forms remains relatively unexamined. This book offers a way to think about this relationship by reading a number of key contemporary Indian novels alongside accounts of the severely stressed ecology and environment of the country. In doing so, postcolonial environments also suggests a new alignment between the theoretical fields of postcolonial and environmental studies. In showing how such an alignment can provide us with a materialist and historicist account of environments of cultures and cultures of environment, the book makes an original contribution to the emergent area of green postcolonialism.

Author: U. Mukherjee
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/02/2010
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230219373

About the Author
UPAMANYU PABLO MUKHERJEE was born in Calcutta, India, and educated there. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study in Oxford, UK, and went on to teach at Cambridge, Newcastle and Warwick Universities. He is the author of Crime Fiction and Empire (2005).