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...
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: | |
Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3907 |
Similar Items
-
Subjection and Resistance: Landscapes, Gardens, Myths and Vestigial Presences in Olive Senior's Gardening in the Tropics
by: Hannah Regis
Published: (2020-08-01) -
Subjection and Resistance: Landscapes, Gardens, Myths and Vestigial Presences in Olive Senior's Gardening in the Tropics
by: Hannah Regis
Published: (2020-08-01) -
From Imitation to Innovation: Nature Poetry in the English-Speaking Caribbean between the 1920s and the 1970s
by: Éric Doumerc
Published: (2019-05-01) -
The decaying stuff of the Anthropocene: exploring contemporary trashscapes through ruination
by: Olli Pyyhtinen, et al.
Published: (2023-12-01) -
No Matter How Long the Night, the Day is Sure to Come: Differences, Diversity and Identities in Caribbean-British Poetry since 1945
by: Pavlína Flajšarová
Published: (2012-12-01)