Gardening in Polluted Tropics: The Materiality of Waste and Toxicity in Olive Senior’s Caribbean Poetry

Gardening in Polluted Tropics: The Materiality of Waste and Toxicity in Olive Senior’s Caribbean Poetry

While toxic substances continue increasingly, and unevenly, infiltrating the world, the new materialist turn invites us to examine the relationalities emerging between pollution and literature. This essay examines how Olive Senior’s poetry collection Gardening in the Tropics portrays the imposition...

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Main Author: Ysabel Muñoz Martínez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2022-10-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Subjects:
Toxicity
Wasteocene
pollution
Caribbean poetry
tropical materialisms
Olive Senior
Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3907

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https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3907

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