The disposition of nature: environmental crisis and world literature

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Reading for the planet -- Chapter 1. Consumption for the common good? commodity biography in an era of postconsumerism -- Chapter 2. Hijacking the imagination: how to tell the story of the Niger delta -- Chapter 3. From waste lands to wasted lives: enclosure as aesthetic regime and property regime -- Chapter 4. How far is bhopal? inconvenient forums and corporate comparison -- Epilogue. Fixing the world -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index