Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development extends the energetic and socially important tradition of postcolonial ecocriticism to regions of the world not normally considered in the postcolonial context, such as southern Japan and eastern Europe. The text expands Karen Thornber's notion of "ecoambiguity" from her own work on East Asian literature and culture to many other countries.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran
Chapter 1: Plundering Borderlands North and South
Karen Thornber
Chapter 2: Tibet, a Topos in Ecopolitics of the Global South
Gang Yue
Chapter 3: Red China, Green Amnesia: Locating Environmental Justice in Contemporary Chinese Literature
Cheng Li and Yanjun Liu
Chapter 4: Minamata and the Symbolic Discourse of the South
Tsutomu Takahashi
Chapter 5: Indian Environmentalism and Its Fragments
Jyotirmaya Tripathy
Chapter 6: From Bhopal to Biometrics: Biological Citizenship in the Age of Globalization
Pamod Nayar
Chapter 7: Beyond the Eco-flaneur's Footsteps: Perambulatory Narration in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying
Laura A. White
Chapter 8: Reconsidering the Eco-Imperatives of Ukrainian Consciousness: An Introduction to Ukrainian Environmental Literature
Inna Sukhenko
Chapter 9: Kissed by Lightning and Fourth Cinema's Natureculture Continuum
Salma Monani
Chapter 10: Under all the laws, natural, human, and divine: Reinterpreting La Leyenda Negra's Colonial Purpose
Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
Chapter 11: Mapmaking, Rubbertapping: Cartography and Social Ecology in Euclides da Cunha's The Amazon: Land Without History
Aarti Madan
Chapter 12: Down Under: New World Literatures and Ecocriticism
George B. Handley
Index
Contributors

Edited by Scott Slovic; Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran - Contributions by Karen Thornber; Gang Yue; Cheng Li; Yanjun Liu; Tsutomu Takahashi; Jyotirmaya Tripathy; Pamod Nayar; Laura A. White; Inna Sukhenko; Salma Monani; Dora Alicia Ramírez;