The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment

Introduction: World‑Literature as World‑Ecological Force
Treasa De Loughry, Sharae Deckard, Kerstin Oloff and Claire Westall

PART I: Commodity Frontiers and Extraction

1 Romance, Race, and Extraction from the Page to the Stage
Natalie Suzelis

2 Global Anglophone to Global Indigenous: Revisiting Extractive Frontiers as Indigenous Homelands
Alok Amatya

3 Gender, Energy and the Aeolian: Windfarm Developments and Saharawi Imaginaries in Occupied Western Sahara
Joanna Allan

4 “To Silently Suffer Exhaustion”: World‑Literature, Extractive Imperialism and the Apple iPhone’s Commodity Chain
Michael Niblett

5 Waste Frontiers and Revolutionary Entropy in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide (2013) and Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019)
Treasa De Loughry

PART II: Fossil Fuel Energetics

6 Compliant Invisibility and Disruptive Visibility: Dimensions of Coal Energy in Kipling’s “The Secret of the Machines” (1911) and “The Giridih Coalfields” (1934)
Swaralipi Nandi

7 (Un)Economic Exhaustion in David Peace’s GB84 (2004): Systemic Reading, Body Burden and the Formal Rendering of Coal Life
Claire Westall

8 “Petroleum [the] Symbol of Venezuela’s Soul”: Reading the Coloniality of Oil in Gabriel Bracho Montiel’s Guachimanes (1954) and Miguel Otero Silva’s Oficina No 1 (1961)
Natasha Bondre

9 Theatre as the Genre of Oil: Performance, Visibility and Modernisation in the Kuwaiti Petro‑State
Faisal Hamadah

10 Between Artwashing and Insurgency: Dramatising Oil Spillages in the Niger Delta
Henry Obi Ajumeze

11 “It’s Not Where You Go, It’s How You Get There”: Petromodernity, Automobility and Short Fiction in Trinidad
Chris Campbell

PART III: Food and Land

12 Life Beyond Meat: The Expansionist Structure of Feeding in Late‑Victorian and Edwardian Adventure and Romance Fiction
Fiona Schroeder and Paul Young

13 The Reconfiguration of Nature and Minzu in Chinese Eco‑Literature
Haomin Gong

14 Gardens and Glasshouses: Figuring Extraction in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother (1996) and My Garden (Book) (1999)
Stacey Balkan

15 An Indigiqueer Ecopoetics of Food: Relationalities and Rehabilitation in the Poetry of Tommy Pico
Caleb O’Connor

PART IV: Oceans, Fresh Water and Hydropolitics

16 Brazilian Modernism and the Politics of Water
Thomas Waller

17 The Hydroterrors of Indian Graphic Novels: Tracking the Hydrogothic, Hydro‑mythic and Hydrocolonial
Pramod K. Nayar

18 Docupoetics and Hydraulic State Power: Infrastructural Reading, “Submerged Perspectives” and the Poetry of Muriel Rukeyser and Jonah Mixon‑Webster
Alexandra Campbell

19 Oceanic Literacy: The Seascape Epistemologies of Indian Ocean Literature
Tyler Scott Ball

20 Reading Customary Law of the Sea in Robert Sullivan’s Star Waka (1999) and Queen Sālote Tupou III’s Songs & Poems of Queen Sālote (2004/2019)
Lea Lani Kinikini

21 Water and Waste in Contemporary Palestinian Literature
Hannah Boast

PART V: Disease, Toxicity and Social Reproduction

22 From Ecosickness to Ecowellness: The Environment of Infection in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) and Ashoke Mukhopadhyay’s A Ballad of Remittent Fever (2017)
Tori Bush and Pallavi Rastogi

23 Lina Meruane’s Fruta Podrida (2007): Agribusiness and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Neoliberal Chile
Sebastián Figueroa

24 Food Commodities, Anti‑Extractivism and the Feminist Ecogothic in Agustina Bazterrica’s Cadáver exquisito (2017) and Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate (2015)
Kerstin Oloff

25 Disabling World‑Ecologies: Epidemic Productivity and the Climate of Extinction in Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert’s The Falling Sky (2013)
Mark Anderson

26 Inhaling Environment: Contemporary Approaches to Black Poetry and Breath
Christine Okoth

PART VI: Emergencies, Wars and Disasters

27 The Anthropocene and Its Climate Wars
Malcolm Sen

28 Pyrodigms: Fire and Australian Literature
Tony Hughes‑d’Aeth

29 Postcolonial Civil War, Compound Disaster and Imaginative Recovery: Cinema and Literature of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Liberation
Sourit Bhattacharya

30 United States Militarism and Environmental Disaster in the Pacific: Colonial Legacies, Indigenous Praxis
Michelle Keown

31 Slow Care in the Midst of Ecological Slow Violence: Reproductive Fiction and Philippine Post‑Disaster Narratives
Alden Sajor Marte‑Wood

PART VII: Apocalypse and Insurgency

32 India, Colonialism and “Energy Justice”: Dinabandhu Mitra, Rudyard Kipling and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee

33 Climate Insurgency in Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels (1993, 1998) and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry of the Future (2020)
Ashley Dawson

34 Apocalyptic Everyday: Climate Change in Contemporary Comics
Daniel Worden

35 Marooning Cli‑Fi: Climate Emergency and the Ecology of Revolt in Caribbean Science Fiction
Sharae Deckard

36 “As one society collapses, another is reborn”: Capitalism and Eco‑Apocalypse in the World‑Science Fiction Novel
Tom Lubek

Biography

Treasa De Loughry is Assistant Professor in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of The Global Novel and Capitalism‑in‑Crisis: Contemporary Literary Narratives (2020) and the co‑editor of the special issue of CLC: Comparative Literature and Culture on “Periodizing the Present: The 2020s, The Longue Durée, and Contemporary Culture” (with Brittany Murray, 2021).

Sharae Deckard is Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalization: Exploiting Eden (2010), co‑author of Tracking Capital: World‑Systems, World‑Ecology, and World‑Culture (with Michael Niblett and Stephen Shapiro; 2024), and editor of the Green Letters special issue “Global and Postcolonial Ecologies” (2012).

Kerstin Oloff is Associate Professor of Hispanic Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Ecology of the Zombie: World‑Culture and the Monstrous (2023) and the co‑editor of Perspectives on the Other America: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture (with Michael Niblett; 2009) and Literary and Cultural Production, World‑Ecology and the Global Food System (with Chris Campbell and Michael Niblett; 2021).

Claire Westall is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. She is the author of The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature (2021), co‑author of The Public on the Public: The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure (with Michael Gardiner; 2014) and the co‑editor of Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice (with Michelle Kelly; 2021).