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September 23, 2020

Post Green: Literature, Culture, and Environment

Post Green: Literature, Culture, and Environment Edited by Murali Sivaramakrishnan and Animesh Roy

One of the central concerns of modern environmentalism in the West, especially in environmental humanities has been a greater preoccupation and a consequent move toward postmaterialist values. Literary environmentalism in the West arose out of a desire toward a posthumanist understanding of the earth, an exploration of how literature and literary criticism could be a potent tool for or against environmental change. Despite Glotfelty and Buell’s noble intentions, the lacuna inherent within ...