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

by Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230219373
• ISBN13: 9780230219373
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"