General Issue
As the climate crisis unfolds, what is the role of postcolonial approaches to environmental and climate issues? How can the environmental humanities and postcolonial studies converge to illuminate each other’s blind spots? The SPECIAL FOCUS of FES 13* traces some of the routes that connect postcolonialism and the environmental humanities from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The contributors’ critical reflections tackle the debate on the schisms between postcolonialism and ecocriticism; the silenced toxic legacies of colonialism in Africa; the capacity of ‘nature’ to speak; soil as a new standpoint to discuss postcolonial Pacific poetry; the role of AI as a tool to connect posthumanism, postcolonialism and the Anthropocene; and indigenous contributions to the development of an ecological and political consciousness in the Americas.
*il volume è stato realizzato con il cofinanziamento dell’Unione europea – FSE REACT-EU, PON Ricerca e Innovazione 2014-2020
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[pp. i-ii]
Special focus | Exploring new routes in the postcolonial environmental humanities
Fragile symbioses: introducing new routes for postcolonial ecocriticism
LUCIO DE CAPITANI AND SHAUL BASSI[pp. 4-9]From ecocriticism to extinction, and beyond: an interview with Graham Huggan
GRAHAM HUGGAN, LUCIO DE CAPITANI, AND SHAUL BASSI[pp. 10-13]Decolonizing imperial epistemologies in African environmental historiography: chemical violence, postcoloniality and new narratives of the toxic epidemic in Africa
ELIJAH DORO[pp. 14-28]Can nature speak? A peasant perspective on decolonizing the human-nature relationship through multispecies communication
SOPHIE VON REDECKER AND CHRISTIAN HERZIG[pp. 29-44]For the land has eyes: soils and bodies in Kathy Jetñil- Kijiner’s poetry
CHIARA LANZA[pp. 45-59]Surrounding the fort: artificial intelligence, identity, art
ANDREA BARCARO[pp. 60-77]Obia. The Bushinengués des Guyanes: political and ecological awareness in the Americas
NICOLA LO CALZO[pp. 78-91]
Reviews
Jitney: Black is beautiful, and possible
LEONARDO DE FRANCESCHI[pp. 93-96]Citizenship, Race and the Mediterranean: The Case of Italy
PINA PICCOLO[pp. 97-101]For New Forms of Thinking about/in Translation and Migration
RENATA MORRESI[pp. 102-106]Post-authenticity: understanding the contingency of Blackness through post-soul memoirs
FRANCESCA FURLAN[pp. 107-111]