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An Island in the Stream - Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture (Paperback): David Taylor, Scott... An Island in the Stream - Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture (Paperback)
David Taylor, Scott Slovic, Armando Fernandez Soriano; Contributions by Scott Slovic, David Taylor, …
R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An Island in the Stream, a collaboration between Cuban and American writers and scholars, is a diverse collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the natural environment in Cuba and to Cuban environmental culture. The chapters explore Cuba's vibrant cultural history with particular attention to literature and the visual and performing arts, which are viewed through such lenses as ecofeminism, postcolonial ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and the nuclear imaginary, among others. American environmentalists have long viewed modern Cuba as a model of progressive environmental thinking. In the 1990s, the Cuban government made sustainability a centerpiece of national policy initiatives. This book explores some of the historical foundations of contemporary sustainability efforts in Cuba, while also describing the current environmental situation in that part of the world. From Jose Marti to Excilia Saldana, from Antonio Nunez Jimenez to Lydia Cabrera, the chapters here aim to provide a starting point for others who wish to learn about Cuban environmental thought. The conjunction of scholarly and creative work is a gesture toward the interdependence of humanities research and artistic expression, both of which seek to encourage environmental and cultural mindfulness and sensitivity.

An Island in the Stream - Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture (Hardcover): David Taylor, Scott... An Island in the Stream - Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture (Hardcover)
David Taylor, Scott Slovic, Armando Fernandez Soriano; Contributions by Scott Slovic, David Taylor, …
R2,276 Discovery Miles 22 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An Island in the Stream, a collaboration between Cuban and American writers and scholars, is a diverse collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the natural environment in Cuba and to Cuban environmental culture. The essays explore Cuba's vibrant cultural history with particular attention to literature and the visual and performing arts, which are viewed through such lenses as ecofeminism, postcolonial ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and the nuclear imaginary, among others. American environmentalists have long viewed modern Cuba as a model of progressive environmental thinking. In the 1990s, the Cuban government made sustainability a centerpiece of national policy initiatives. This book explores some of the historical foundations of contemporary sustainability efforts in Cuba, while also describing the contemporary environmental situation in that part of the world. From Jose Marti to Excilia Saldana, from Antonio Nunez Jimenez to Lydia Cabrera, the articles here aim to provide a starting point for others who wish to learn about Cuban environmental thought. The conjunction of scholarly and creative work is a gesture toward the interdependence of humanities research and artistic expression, both of which seek to encourage environmental and cultural mindfulness and sensitivity.

Lowell L. Bennion - A Mormon Educator (Paperback): George B. Handley Lowell L. Bennion - A Mormon Educator (Paperback)
George B. Handley
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R367 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The intellectual and ethical achievements of the Latter-day Saint theologian Known in his lifetime for a tireless dedication to humanitarian causes, Lowell L. Bennion was also one of the most important theologians and ethicists to emerge in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the twentieth century. George B. Handley’s intellectual biography delves into Bennion’s thought and extraordinary intellectual life. Rejecting the idea that individual LDS practice might be at odds with lived experience, Bennion insisted the gospel favored the growth of individuals acting and living in the present. He also focused on the need for ongoing secular learning alongside religious practice and advocated for an idea of social morality that encouraged Latter-day Saints to seek out meaningful transformations of character and put their ethical commitments into practice. Handley examines Bennion’s work against the background of a changing institution that once welcomed his common-sense articulation of LDS ideas and values but became discomfited by how his thought cast doubt on the Church’s beliefs about race and other issues.

Climate Change Scepticism - A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis (Paperback): Greg Garrard, Axel Goodbody, George B. Handley,... Climate Change Scepticism - A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis (Paperback)
Greg Garrard, Axel Goodbody, George B. Handley, Stephanie Posthumus
R1,138 Discovery Miles 11 380 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Climate Change Scepticism is the first ecocritical study to examine the cultures and rhetoric of climate scepticism in the UK, Germany, the USA and France. Collaboratively written by leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book considers climate skeptical-texts as literature, teasing out differences and challenging stereotypes as a way of overcoming partisan political paralysis on the most important cultural debate of our time.

Learning to Like Life - A Tribute to Lowell Bennion (Paperback): George B. Handley Learning to Like Life - A Tribute to Lowell Bennion (Paperback)
George B. Handley
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lowell L. Bennion - A Mormon Educator: George B. Handley Lowell L. Bennion - A Mormon Educator
George B. Handley
R2,477 R2,283 Discovery Miles 22 830 Save R194 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The intellectual and ethical achievements of the Latter-day Saint theologian Known in his lifetime for a tireless dedication to humanitarian causes, Lowell L. Bennion was also one of the most important theologians and ethicists to emerge in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the twentieth century. George B. Handley’s intellectual biography delves into Bennion’s thought and extraordinary intellectual life. Rejecting the idea that individual LDS practice might be at odds with lived experience, Bennion insisted the gospel favored the growth of individuals acting and living in the present. He also focused on the need for ongoing secular learning alongside religious practice and advocated for an idea of social morality that encouraged Latter-day Saints to seek out meaningful transformations of character and put their ethical commitments into practice. Handley examines Bennion’s work against the background of a changing institution that once welcomed his common-sense articulation of LDS ideas and values but became discomfited by how his thought cast doubt on the Church’s beliefs about race and other issues.

Caribbean Literature and the Environment - Between Nature and Culture (Paperback): Elizabeth M DeLoughrey, Ren ee K Gosson,... Caribbean Literature and the Environment - Between Nature and Culture (Paperback)
Elizabeth M DeLoughrey, Ren ee K Gosson, George B. Handley
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Perhaps there is no other region in the world that has been more radically altered in terms of human and botanic migration, transplantation, and settlement than the Caribbean. Theorists such as Edouard Glissant argue that the dialectic between Caribbean "nature" and "culture," engendered by this unique and troubled history, has not heretofore been brought into productive relation. "Caribbean Literature and the Environment "redresses this omission by gathering together eighteen essays that consider the relationship between human and natural history. The result is the first volume to examine the literatures of the Caribbean from an ecocritical perspective in all language areas of the region.

In its exploration of the relationship between nature and culture, this collection focuses on four overlapping themes: how Caribbean texts inscribe the environmental impact of colonial and plantation economies; how colonial myths of edenic and natural origins are revisioned; what the connections are between histories of biotic and cultural creolization; and how a Caribbean aesthetics might usefully articulate a means to preserve sustainability in the context of tourism and globalization. By creating a dialogue between the growing field of ecological literary studies, which has primarily been concerned with white settler narratives, and Caribbean cultural production, especially the region's negotiation of complex racial and ethnic legacies, these essays explore the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean.

The volume includes an extensive introduction by the editors and essays by Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Cyril Dabydeen, Helen Tiffen, Hena Maes-Jelinek, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, among others, as well as interviews with Walcott and Raphael Confiant. It will appeal to all those interested in Caribbean, literary, and ecocritical studies.

Climate Change Scepticism - A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis (Hardcover): Greg Garrard, Axel Goodbody, George B. Handley,... Climate Change Scepticism - A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis (Hardcover)
Greg Garrard, Axel Goodbody, George B. Handley, Stephanie Posthumus
R4,168 Discovery Miles 41 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Climate Change Scepticism is the first ecocritical study to examine the cultures and rhetoric of climate scepticism in the UK, Germany, the USA and France. Collaboratively written by leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book considers climate skeptical-texts as literature, teasing out differences and challenging stereotypes as a way of overcoming partisan political paralysis on the most important cultural debate of our time.

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