• Literature and the Environment includes the following units: • An Introduction to Literature about the Environment • Indigenous Worldviews and Perspectives on Environment • Old-World Romanticism in Contrast with Indigenous Ways of Knowing the Land • Fiction versus Non-Fiction in Environmental Writing • Ecofeminism • Anthropomorphism and the Human-Animal Connection • The Future of Ecocriticism and Environmental Writing
Literary Texts
Poetry: (Selections) • Romantic Pastoral : Poetry by John Clare and William Wordsworth
Essays: (Selections) • Edward Abbey: Desert Solitaire • Aldo Leopold: A Sand Country Almanac • Rachel Carson: Silent Spring • Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
Fiction (Selections) • Bessie Head: When Rain Clouds Gather • Wayland Drew: Halfway Man • Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God