Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment

Treasa De Loughry is Assistant Professor in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of The Global Novel and Capitalism‑in‑Crisis: Contemporary Literary Narratives (2020) and the co‑editor of the special issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture on “Periodizing the Present: The 2020s, The Longue Durée, and Contemporary Culture” (with Brittany Murray, 2021).Sharae Deckard is Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalization: Exploiting Eden (2010), co‑author of Tracking Capital: World‑Systems, World‑Ecology, and World‑Culture (with Michael Niblett and Stephen Shapiro; 2024), and editor of the Green Letters special issue “Global and Postcolonial Ecologies” (2012).Kerstin Oloff is Associate Professor of Hispanic Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Ecology of the Zombie: World‑Culture and the Monstrous (2023) and the co‑editor of Perspectives on the Other America: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture (with Michael Niblett; 2009) and Literary and Cultural Production, World‑Ecology and the Global Food System (with Chris Campbell and Michael Niblett; 2021).Claire Westall is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. She is the author of The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature (2021), co‑author of The Public on the Public: The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure (with Michael Gardiner; 2014) and the co‑editor of Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice (with Michelle Kelly; 2021).

• Introduction: World‑Literature as World‑Ecological Force Treasa De Loughry, Sharae Deckard, Kerstin Oloff and Claire WestallPART I: Commodity Frontiers and Extraction1 Romance, Race, and Extraction from the Page to the Stage Natalie Suzelis2 Global Anglophone to Global Indigenous: Revisiting Extractive Frontiers as Indigenous Homelands Alok Amatya3 Gender, Energy and the Aeolian: Windfarm Developments and Saharawi Imaginaries in Occupied Western Sahara Joanna Allan4 “To Silently Suffer Exhaustion”: World‑Literature, Extractive Imperialism and the Apple iPhone’s Commodity Chain Michael Niblett5 Waste Frontiers and Revolutionary Entropy in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide (2013) and Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019) Treasa De LoughryPART II: Fossil Fuel Energetics 6 Compliant Invisibility and Disruptive Visibility: Dimensions of Coal Energy in Kipling’s “The Secret of the Machines” (1911) and “The Giridih Coalfields” (1934) Swaralipi Nandi7 (Un)Economic Exhaustion in David Peace’s GB84 (2004): Systemic Reading, Body Burden and the Formal Rendering of Coal Life Claire Westall8 “Petroleum [the] Symbol of Venezuela’s Soul”: Reading the Coloniality of Oil in Gabriel Bracho Montiel’s Guachimanes (1954) and Miguel Otero Silva’s Oficina No 1 (1961) Natasha Bondre9 Theatre as the Genre of Oil: Performance, Visibility and Modernisation in the Kuwaiti Petro‑State Faisal Hamadah10 Between Artwashing and Insurgency: Dramatising Oil Spillages in the Niger Delta Henry Obi Ajumeze11 “It’s Not Where You Go, It’s How You Get There”: Petromodernity, Automobility and Short Fiction in Trinidad Chris CampbellPART III: Food and Land 12 Life Beyond Meat: The Expansionist Structure of Feeding in Late‑Victorian and Edwardian Adventure and Romance Fiction Fiona Schroeder and Paul Young13 The Reconfiguration of Nature and Minzu in Chinese Eco‑Literature Haomin Gong14 Gardens and Glasshouses: Figuring Extraction in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother (1996) and My Garden (Book) (1999) Stacey Balkan15 An Indigiqueer Ecopoetics of Food: Relationalities and Rehabilitation in the Poetry of Tommy Pico Caleb O’ConnorPART IV: Oceans, Fresh Water and Hydropolitics16 Brazilian Modernism and the Politics of Water Thomas Waller17 The Hydroterrors of Indian Graphic Novels: Tracking the Hydrogothic, Hydro‑mythic and Hydrocolonial Pramod K. Nayar18 Docupoetics and Hydraulic State Power: Infrastructural Reading, “Submerged Perspectives” and the Poetry of Muriel Rukeyser and Jonah Mixon‑Webster Alexandra Campbell19 Oceanic Literacy: The Seascape Epistemologies of Indian Ocean LiteratureTyler Scott Ball20 Reading Customary Law of the Sea in Robert Sullivan’s Star Waka (1999) and Queen Sālote Tupou III’s Songs & Poems of Queen Sālote (2004/2019)Lea Lani Kinikini21 Water and Waste in Contemporary Palestinian Literature Hannah BoastPART V: Disease, Toxicity and Social Reproduction 22 From Ecosickness to Ecowellness: The Environment of Infection in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) and Ashoke Mukhopadhyay’s A Ballad of Remittent Fever (2017) Tori Bush and Pallavi Rastogi23 Lina Meruane’s Fruta Podrida (2007): Agribusiness and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Neoliberal Chile Sebastián Figueroa24 Food Commodities, Anti‑Extractivism and the Feminist Ecogothic in Agustina Bazterrica’s Cadáver exquisito (2017) and Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate (2015) Kerstin Oloff25 Disabling World‑Ecologies: Epidemic Productivity and the Climate of Extinction in Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert’s The Falling Sky (2013) Mark Anderson26 Inhaling Environment: Contemporary Approaches to Black Poetry and Breath Christine OkothPART VI: Emergencies, Wars and Disasters 27 The Anthropocene and Its Climate Wars Malcolm Sen28 Pyrodigms: Fire and Australian Literature Tony Hughes‑d’Aeth29 Postcolonial Civil War, Compound Disaster and Imaginative Recovery: Cinema and Literature of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Liberation Sourit Bhattacharya30 United States Militarism and Environmental Disaster in the Pacific: Colonial Legacies, Indigenous Praxis Michelle Keown31 Slow Care in the Midst of Ecological Slow Violence: Reproductive Fiction and Philippine Post‑Disaster Narratives Alden Sajor Marte‑WoodPART VII: Apocalypse and Insurgency 32 India, Colonialism and “Energy Justice”: Dinabandhu Mitra, Rudyard Kipling and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee33 Climate Insurgency in Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels (1993, 1998) and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry of the Future (2020) Ashley Dawson34 Apocalyptic Everyday: Climate Change in Contemporary Comics Daniel Worden35 Marooning Cli‑Fi: Climate Emergency and the Ecology of Revolt in Caribbean Science Fiction Sharae Deckard36 “As one society collapses, another is reborn”: Capitalism and Eco‑Apocalypse in the World‑Science Fiction Novel Tom Lubek