Subject: RE: Course on the Global Environment
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 01:54:09 -0500


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Nadita,
Your course sounds fascinating and I hope you'll post the final syllabus to
the list. There's a lot of work out there on "green imperialism" from
Richard Grove's work of that title to Alfred Crosby's "Ecological
Imperialism" to other collections such as "Ecology and Empire". I've been
working on this through Caribbean literature and have started an initial
(non-fiction) bibliography at:
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/emd23/Caribbean/CLEBiblio.html.

There's a long list of writers from the Caribbean including Olive Senior,
Jamaica Kincaid, Mayra Montero, Lorna Goodison, Cyril Dabydeen & Pauline
Melville who have (generally short) novels, essays, poetry and short stories
about colonialism and environmental impact. Derek Walcott has also been
quite vocal about tourism development in St Lucia. Let me know if you need
further details and I can email you off list. One of my co-editors has a
website about environmentalism in Martinique:
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rgosson/beneath/ which includes a
forthcoming film and interviews with Chamoiseau and Confiant.

Finally, there's a wealth of material published from indigenous writers
(fiction and non) from critiques of white eco-feminism (Paula Gunn Allen) to
nuclear testing in Bikini & Moruroa-Tahiti (see Albert Wendt's two
collections of Pacific Lit, "Lali" and "Nuanua" with ample materials, also
Hone Tuwhare's gorgeous poem "No ordinary sun", plus the devastating
documentary film "Radio Bikini"). I've pasted an online article from
Haunani-Kay Trask below--her poetry addresses this as well. The list is
endless but I don't know how one could adequately cover the topic without
multiple indigenous perspectives. Hope this helps, Liz
Article: Environmental Racism in Hawai'i and the Pacific Basin

http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/bartrask.htm

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