Post Green

Literature, Culture, and the Environment

Animesh Roy editor Murali Sivaramakrishnan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:15th Dec '23

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Post Green cover

The idea in Post Green: Literature, Culture, and the Environment is not to create another binary like East/West, but rather a call for a shift in the order of perception. The contributors signal a movement from the conventional understanding of green thinking—acknowledging human-centered limitations of the green approaches and recognising the immense possibilities and holistic perspectives that a symbiotic human-nature perspective offers. This book proposes to move beyond the monoculture of the mind toward a celebration of diversity and plurality. While the movement from red to green was a politics of difference, as essays in this book emphasize, the shift toward post green is based on an all-inclusive and holistic vision that contains within itself both difference and multiplicity, something that is quintessential for the stability of our ecosystem. Such affirmative bio-politics toward an alternative symbiosis challenges intellectual theorising, without minimizing the need for radical questioning. It urges the need to do away with disciplinary boundaries drawing hopes for a new spiritual geography of the mind to surface.

A fascinating collection of ecocritical approaches from different countries and cultures. The explorations of Indian texts and traditions are especially illuminating, and the essays in combination hold out intriguing possibilities of dialogue. -- Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University

ISBN: 9781666947908

Dimensions: 239mm x 158mm x 23mm

Weight: 535g

232 pages