Global Fictions and Environmental Disaster by Martin Premoli - 9781350353152

Global Fictions and Environmental DisasterImagining Survival on Our Changing Planet\nAuthor(s): Martin Premoli\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350353152, 978-1350353152\nSynopsis\nExamining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a NorthSouth axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the [url] and the global South. \n\nPairing anti-colonial texts from the United States with examples from the Global South, it interrogates the complexity of global precarity and particular forms of environmental violence. Each pairing is linked to a specific manifestation of environmental disaster, such as hurricane, drought, species extinction, and agricultural collapse.\n\nFeaturing texts from authors such as Jesmyn Ward, Monique Roffey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Alexis Wright, Linda Hogan, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Ruth Ozeki, and S.