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- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Foundations
- Part II Theories
- Part III Interdisciplinary Engagements
- Part IV Major Directions
- 11 Environmental Justice, Cosmopolitics, and Climate Change
- 12 Systems and Secrecy: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Ghosh’sThe Calcutta Chromosome
- 13 Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures: Uncertain Presents and Futures
- 14 Confronting Catastrophe: Ecocriticism in a Warming World
- 15 Ecocinema and the Wildlife Film
- Chronology of Publications and Events
- Further Reading
- Index
12 - Systems and Secrecy: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Ghosh’sThe Calcutta Chromosome
from Part IV - Major Directions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2013
- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Foundations
- Part II Theories
- Part III Interdisciplinary Engagements
- Part IV Major Directions
- 11 Environmental Justice, Cosmopolitics, and Climate Change
- 12 Systems and Secrecy: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Ghosh’sThe Calcutta Chromosome
- 13 Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures: Uncertain Presents and Futures
- 14 Confronting Catastrophe: Ecocriticism in a Warming World
- 15 Ecocinema and the Wildlife Film
- Chronology of Publications and Events
- Further Reading
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment , pp. 184 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013