V 13 N 2 - Fall 2006
V 14 N 1 - Spring 2007

Special Issue:
Postcolonial Studies and Ecocriticism

Guest Editors:
Anthony Vital and Hans-Georg Erney

Articles
Title		Author	Page
Introduction: Postcolonial Studies and Ecocriticism		Anthony Vital and Hans-Georg Erney	3
Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor		Rob Nixon	14
Exploiting El Dorado: Subalternity and the Environment		Aaron Eastley	38
"Hotels Are Squatting on My Metaphors": Tourism, Sustainability, and Sacred Space in the Caribbean		Anthony Carrigan	59
Doomed Kyoto: Language, Environment, and National Interests		Erin Somerville	83
"Not-the-Native": Self-Transplantation, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonialism in Jamaica Kincaid's My Garden (Book)		Rachel Azima	101
The Home, the Tide, and the World: Eco-cosmopolitan Encounters in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide		Alexa Weik	120
Book Review Essays
"Water: Rivers and Forests of Survival"		Vermonja R. Alston	145
	The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination, by Lawrence Buell
	Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond, by Lawrence Buell
	Caribbean Literature and the Environment, edited by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, Renée K. Gosson, and George B. Handley
"A Litany of Disasters or Going With the Flow: New Developments in Water Politics"		Nicole M. Merola	160
	Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, by Jacques Leslie
	The Greater Common Good, by Arundhati Roy
	Power Politics, by Arundhati Roy
	Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams, by Patrick McCully
	Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, by Vandana Shiva
	When the Rivers Run Dry: Water -- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century, by Fred Pearce
"Postcolonial Criticism and American Indian Ecologies: Approaches from Anthropology and Literature"		Sebastian F. Braun	173
	American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place, by Joni Adamson
	Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown
	Ecocriticism: Creating Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures, by Donelle N. Dreese
	Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, edited by Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer
	Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian, edited by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis
	Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, by Linda Hogan
	The Ecological Indian: Myth and History, by Shephard Krech, III
"Toward Postcolonial Ecocriticism?: Avenues for Intervention on Interdisciplinary Terrain"		Jesse Oak Taylor	187
	Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial Era, by William M. Adams and Martin Mulligan
	Environmental Ethics in a Postcolonial World, by Deane Curtin
	Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications, by Andrew Sluyter
"Imperial Animals"		Helen Tiffin	198
	Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe 900-1900, by Alfred Crosby
	Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, by Virginia DeJohn Anderson
	The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire, by Kurt Koenigsberger
	Postcolonial Animal Tales from Kipling to Coetzee, by Jopi Nyman

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