Words for a Small Planet

Preface
Annie Merrill Ingram
Introduction: Ecocritical Spring and Evolutionary Discourse
Andrew Belyea and Nanette Norris
Chapter 1: Imaginary Representations and Cultural Performances Of Ecocriticism
Eduardo Barros-Grela
Chapter 2: Ecological Narrative or Imperial Exploitation: What’s the “Monster” in Animal Planet’s River Monsters?
Christopher Justice
Chapter 3: The Representation of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Juan León Mera’s Cumandá
Frederico A. Chalupa
Chapter 4: Nature Versus War in Letters from the Front, 1914-1918
Sylvie Housiel
Chapter 5: A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading
Yomna Al-Abdulkareem
Chapter 6: Nature, Women, and the Ecotext: Self-Discovery in Emily Nasrallah’s Short Stories “The Cocoon” and “The Butterfly”
Iman A. Hanafy
Chapter 7: Jerusalem in the poetry of Tamim El-Barghouti and Yehuda Amichai
Hessa Al-Kahlan
Chapter 8: Omumu Concept of Begetting: A Pro-Feminist Lesson from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Chinyere Okafor
Chapter 9: The Legacy of the American War in Vietnam: Tim O’Brien’s “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”
Nanette Norris
Chapter 10: National Narrative as Wilderness: An Ecocritical Interpretation of Civilización y barbarie in Modern Argentine LiteratureAnne E. Hiller
Chapter 11: Unnatural Appetites and the Case of the Cannibal in Korean Cinema
Colette Balmain
Chapter 12: Is ‘Eco’ Enough?: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew’s The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary Fiction
Andrew Belyea

Words for a Small Planet is an important book that makes connections between traditional forms of eco-criticism and emerging, non-Western settings, texts, and frameworks. Anyone who studies and writes about literature and environment in the 21st Century needs to add this book to their collection!