Global Fictions and Environmental Disaster

"Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a North-South axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U.S. and the global South. Featuring texts from authors such as Jesmyn Ward, Monique Roffey, Paulo Bacigalupi, Alexis Wright, Linda Hogan, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, it models how a comparative (global North-global South) approach to literary studies can help us untangle the complex power dynamics of the Anthropocene"-- Provided by publisher.