Contents
Foreword
Richard Kerridge
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Shruti Das and Mridul Bordolai
Part I: Interspecies Communication and Intersection
Chapter1: Fungal Friends: The Parable of the Mushroom in Canadian Literature
Erin Samant
Chapter 2 : Spiral of Destruction: War, Silence, and Environment in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Ike’s Sunset at Dawn
Thomas Jay Lynn
Chapter 3: Stone and Rocks in Tribal Folk Imagination: A Study with Reference to Folktales and Traditions from Northeast India
Arzuman Ara
Chapter 4: Telluric Aesthetics in Nina Bouraoui’s Le Jourdu Séisme: From the Cartography of Memory to the Seismic Knowledge of the Body
Azzeddine Bouhassoun
Part II: Eco-ethical Intersection and Responsibility
Chapter 5: Ancient Indic Wisdom Inherent in the Concept of Aprigraha as Eco-ethics and Environmental Concerns Today
Jagriti Upadhyaya
Chapter 6: The Postsecular Ecology of the Pynchon verse: Gravity’s Rainbow in Translation
Łukasz Barciński
Chapter 7: Eco-wokeism, Eco-justice, and Eco-precarity: Critical Reading of Assamese Poetry and Short Stories
Mridul Bordoloi
Chapter 8: The Posthuman Condition and Ecological Ethics
Shruti Das
Chapter 9: An Eco-thealogical Analysis of ŚāktaTantra with Reference to the Myths of Two Tantric Goddesses
Sudipta Chakraborty
Chapter 10: The Surreal Symphony: Interweaving Nature, Culture, Myth and Human Psyche in Durga Puja
Ashes Gupta
Chapter11: Trade in Exotics and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century British Identities
Saswati Halder and Md. Shahnawaz
PartIII:TowardsEcologicalSustainability
Chapter 12: Animals and the Empire: The Representation of Wildlife in Selected Colonial Travelogues on Assam
Akash Borchetia
Chapter 13: Interspecies Ecologies, Rural Communities, and the Human-Horse Relationship: A View from Brazil
Miriam Adelman
Chapter 14: The Hidden Life of Mosses: Lessons in Resilience and Resistance in Liz Ziemska’s Short Story Hunt Relic
Patrycja Austin
Chapter 15: Sustaining in the Wilderness: An Ecopsychological Exploration of Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds
Ranjit Mandal and Shruti Das
Chapter 16: “When We Cease to Understand the World”: Place, Possible and Real, in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
Kasturi Mukherjee
About the Editors
About the Contributors