The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postmodern Realist Fiction

Chapter 1. Thinking about transcultural ecocriticism: space, scale and translation / Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney, Griffith University, Australia — Part A. Planetary localities. Chapter 2 Urban narrative and climate change / Ursula K. Heise , UCLA, USA ; Chapter 3. Scaling down our imagination of the human: Ted Chiang and the fable of extinction / Chris Danta, University of New South Wales, Australia ; Chapter 4. ‘Re-enchanting the world’ from Mozambique: the African anthropocene and Mia Couto’s Poetics of the planet / Meg Samuelson, University of Adelaide and Stellenbosch University, South Africa ; Chapter 5. Ecological imaginations in contemporary Chinese science fiction / Mengtian Sun, University of Melbourne, Australia — Part B. Beyond the romantic frontier. Chapter 6. The colonial translation of natures / Alan Bewell, University of Toronot, Canada ; Chapter 7. Sensing empire: travel writing, picturesque taste and British perceptions of the Indian sensory environment / Peter Denney ; Chapter 8. The dark side of romantic dendrophilia / Ve-Yin Tee, Nanzan University, Japan ; Chapter 9. Shaping selves and spaces: romanticism, botany and South-West Western Australia / Jessica White, University of Edinburgh, UK — Part C. Decolonial poetics. Chapter 10. Transcultural ecopoetics and decoloniality in meenamatta lena puellakanny: Meenamatta Water Country Discussion / Peter Minter , University of Sydney, Australia ; Chapter 11. Theorising decolonised literary environments / Stephen Muecke, Flinders University, Australia ; Chapter 12. Placing invisible women: environment, space and power in two works / by Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim Maia Gunn Watkinson, University of New South Wales, Australia ; Chapter 13. Geoterritorial Island poetics, or Transcultural composition with a wetland in Southern Chile / Stuart Cooke, with Juan Paulo Huirimilla, La Universidad de Los Lagos, Puerto Montt, Chile Index.