Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India

Losing Nature

Edited by Zelia M. Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan - Contributions by Ligia Andrade; Nibedita Bandyopadhyay; Siddharth Singh M.Bora; Zelia M. Bora; Carmen Escobedo de Tapia; Rajan Gurukkal; Frank Izaguirre; V. Arivudai Nambi; Dr. Rekha Pande; Reinhart Philip; Animesh Roy; Murali Sivaramakrishnan and Heloisa Helena Siqueira Correia

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature, edited by Zelia Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan, contextualizes the two subcontinents of India and Brazil and closely examines environmental issues from within and without. This collection focuses largely on the fate of forests and water in these two geographical terrains.

This book explores narratives that reflect transformations: hitherto unprecedented demographic expansions, exploitation of natural resources, pollution and depletion of river and fresh water sources, uncontrollable demands on the energy front, waste and garbage disposal, drastic reduction of biodiversity. All of these are factors to research when one considers “losing nature.”

In philosophical as well as theoretical terms the question of what is nature, what is gained and lost in human-nature interaction, what is the essential “balance” of nature, are all important queries on a similar scale. Societal reality in present day Brazil and India is reconstructed and deconstructed at will by the powerful influence of the past alongside that of globalization and technocratic market structures. The volume contemplates the representation and interrogation of environmental issues in both subcontinents, Brazil and India.

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Pages: 204 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-4985-8114-1 • Hardback • November 2018 • $90.00 • (£60.00)

978-1-4985-8115-8 • eBook • November 2018 • $85.50 • (£60.00)

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Ecocritical Theory

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Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature, edited by Zelia Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan, contextualizes the two subcontinents of India and Brazil and closely examines environmental issues from within and without. This collection focuses largely on the fate of forests and water in these two geographical terrains.

This book explores narratives that reflect transformations: hitherto unprecedented demographic expansions, exploitation of natural resources, pollution and depletion of river and fresh water sources, uncontrollable demands on the energy front, waste and garbage disposal, drastic reduction of biodiversity. All of these are factors to research when one considers “losing nature.”

In philosophical as well as theoretical terms the question of what is nature, what is gained and lost in human-nature interaction, what is the essential “balance” of nature, are all important queries on a similar scale. Societal reality in present day Brazil and India is reconstructed and deconstructed at will by the powerful influence of the past alongside that of globalization and technocratic market structures. The volume contemplates the representation and interrogation of environmental issues in both subcontinents, Brazil and India.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 204 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-4985-8114-1 • Hardback • November 2018 • $90.00 • (£60.00)

978-1-4985-8115-8 • eBook • November 2018 • $85.50 • (£60.00)

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Ecocritical Theory

Author

Murali Sivaramakrishnan is poet, painter, professor and former chair of English at Pondicherry University.

Zélia M. Bora is professor of Brazilian studies in the graduate program at University Federal of Paraíba.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Contested Spaces: Resisting the Loss of Water and Forests
1. The Loss of Nature, Human and Non human Relationship in Tamil Nadu
V.Arivudai Nambi
1. Human Intervention and the Depleting Well Springs of Nature A Case Study of Orange Poika
Reinhart Phillip
1. Green Risk: Analyzing the Societal Harms in the Illegal Wood Trade of the Amazonian Rain Forest (Peru/Brazil)
Siddharth Singh Monteiro Bora
1. Sabarimala: A Review of Development Threats to a Rare Forest Ecosystem
Rajan Gurukkal

Section 2: Speaking Nature: The Cultural Dimensions of Water and Land
1. The Amazonian Forest Revisited: a critical reading of the novels by Dalcídio Jurandir
Zélia M. Bora
1. The Saga of Subalterns amidst Resource Crisis: An Analysis of “Drought: Mahesh” and Water
Nibedita Bandyopadhyay
1. Re-reading Nature, Restoring Nature: “The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai.
Carmen Escobedo de Tapia
1. Nature, Religion and Ecological Sustainability in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Animesh Roy

Section 3: The Voice of the Subaltern: Losing Nature
1. “Good God! The Tambochas”: Ants and Environmental Vengeance in José Eustasio Rivera’s The Vortex
Frank Izaguirre
1. Around and Inside Amazonian Rainforest: The Literary Manifestos of Vicente Franz Cecim
Heloisa Helena Siqueira Correia
1. Amazonian Mythology and the Theatre of A Rã Qi Ri
Ligia Karina Martins de Andrade
1. Role of Women in the Early Environment Movements in India
Rekha Pande

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India

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