Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Shubhanku Kochar and M. Anjum Khan -- "Transformation is the rule of life": Environment and the search for Utopia in The Hungry Tide / Suzy Woltmann -- Cultural nationalism and sacred groves of Kerala / Anupama Nayar -- Politics, oil, and theater in Africa / Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah -- Through the postcolonial lens: reading the environment in narratives from India's North East / Kalpana Bora Barman -- "Aesthetics of belonging": Construction of a postcolonial landscape in Daud Kamal's poetry / Humaira Riaz -- I am a tree leaning: Neocolonialism, eco-consciousness, and the decolonized self in Margaret Atwood's surfacing / Anik Sarkar -- For appearances must deceive: Misreading the environment in days and nights in the forest and its cinematic adaptation / Chinmaya Lal Thakur -- Postcolonial ecology and representation: Exploring "Ashani Sanket" as an ecofilm / Neepa Sarkar -- Land, labor, and family: The impact of US colonization on Puerto Rico in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican / Renée Latchman -- "Coloniality" of humans and the ecology: An ecocritical reading of Shubhangi Swarup's Latitudes of Longing / Risha Baruah -- Women and power: Digital cameras in postcolonial Caribbean spaces in literature / Denise M. Jarrett -- Nature and resistance in Coetzee and Abani: The transcorporeal in African fiction / Puja Sen Majumdar -- Colonialism, capitalism, and nature: A study of Alex Haley's Roots and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood / Shivani Duggal -- Beyond the dichotomy of humans and animals: Situating ecology in Coetzee's writings / Bipasha Mandal -- Provincializing ecocriticism: Postcolonial ecocritical thoughts and environmental-historical difference / Animesh Roy.

[This book] is an academic investigation of the environmental repercussions of colonial destruction. This volume addresses the complex interplay between postcolonialism and environmental discourse through literature produced in the ex-colonies. This literature is read from the standpoint of ex-colonies within their human and non-human context. The primary objective of this volume is to scrutinize environmental concerns in the light of postcolonial theory, and so it examines works of art from the twin perspective of eco-criticism and postcolonialism which illuminates and underscores how colonizers destroyed and interfered with both nature and culture. Through discussing the intersecting layers of ecocriticism and postcolonial criticism, the volume gestures to new directions and generates a hopeful vision of a decolonized world.