Transcultural Ecocriticism

Bringing together decolonial Romantic and global literature perspectives Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies. By examining these literatures across a range of geographical locations and historical periods – from Romantic period travel writing to Chinese science fiction and Aboriginal Australian poetry – the book makes a compelling case for the need for ecocriticism to competently translate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous planetary and local and contemporary and pre-modern perspectives. Leading scholars from Australasia and North America explore links between Indigenous knowledges Romanticism globalisation avant-garde poetics and critical theory in order to chart tensions as well as affinities between these discourses in a variety of genres of environmental representation including science fiction poetry colonial natural history and oral narrative.