The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment (Routledge Literature Companions)

The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment takes a broad, global overview of the history, present, and potential futures of environmental and literary studies, demonstrating that world-literature is itself a world-ecological force. Over 36 chapters the collection moves from early modern imperial activity through to the contemporary climate emergency.The book is organised into seven thematic sections: Commodity Frontiers and Extraction; Fossil Fuel Energetics; Food and Land; Oceans, Fresh Water and Hydropolitics; Disease, Toxicity and Social Reproduction; Emergencies, Wars and Disasters; and Apocalypse and Insurgency.With coverage stretching across Europe, the Americas, Australasia, the Indian subcontinent and East Asia, the Companion takes a multilingual approach, appearing in English yet also tackling texts originally written in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as texts containing translated elements of Indigenous languages.Chapters examin