Environmental Futures

Caren Irr is professor of English and the Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University. She is the author or editor of five previous books, among them Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century and The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada during the 1930s.

“Environmental Futures is recommended for both scholars in environmental studies who wish to explore literary works outside their regions or languages of expertise and casual readers interested in the representation of global socio-ecological issues through world literatures. This anthology also has considerable pedagogical potential: thanks to the brevity and interpretive richness of the featured texts, it is ideal as reading material for discussion-based courses in ecocriticism or environmental humanities.”

• IntroductionCaren Irr and Anik Chartrand, Decolonizing Environmental Futurisms1. Africa Cajetan Iheka, Introduction Mame Bougouma Diene, Lekki Lekki Ogaga Ifowodo, from The Oil Lamp Tlotlo Tsamaase, Eclipse Our Sins Tanure Ojaide, from Tales of the HarmattanHenrietta Rose-Innes, Poison 2. East AsiaShaobo Xie, IntroductionJiang Zidan, Chocho Han Shaogong, Plants in My GardenChen Yingsong, Tree ShoutsBaoerji Yuanye, from Salt on the StarsFu Fei, The Pond in the Field3. Europe Irina Sadovina, Introduction Maarja Pärtna, from Vivarium Niillas Holmberg, from UnderfootEvgenia Nekrasova, Museum of Moscow Garbage Anna Carlier, from HertenleerAroa Moreno Durán, Gravity/La gravedad Dogu Yücel, Under the Seas Julien Gracq, from Lettrines II 4. Latin America Roberto Forns-Broggi, Introduction Abdón Ubidia, from Opinions of a Neanderthal. A Reported Essay Edmundo Paz Soldán, Far Outside There Are MonstersUlises Gutiérrez Llantoy, The Trip of the MortarFogwill, from Runa Gabriela Damián Miravete, They Will Dream of a GardenCamila Fadda Gacitúa, “Moving the Water” 5. North America Kurt Cavender, Introduction Robin Wall Kimmerer, In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place Kimberly M. Blaeser, Growing ThingsJamaica Kincaid, What I have been Doing LatelyLeslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain CloudsDavid Clerson, The Ape Within6. South Asia Upamanyu Mukherjee, IntroductionMahasweta Devi, Pterodactyl IIAcknowledgements Editor and Translator Biographies