Words for a small planet : ecocritical views / edited by Nanette Norris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Imaginary representations and cultural performances of ecocriticis -- Ecological narrative or imperial exploitation : what's the "monster" in Animal Planet's River monsters? -- The representation of nature : an ecocritical reading of Juan León Mera's Cumandá -- Nature versus war in letters from the front, 1914-1918 -- A passage to India : an ecocritical reading -- Nature, women, and the ecotext : self-discovery in Emily Nasrallah's short stories "The cocoon" and "The butterfly" -- Jerusalem in the poems of Tamim Al-Barghouthi and Yehuda Amichai -- Omumu concept of begetting : a pro-feminist lesson from Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart -- The legacy of the American War in Vietnam : Tim O'brien's "Sweetheart of the song tra bong" -- National narrative as wilderness : an ecocritical interpretation of civilización y barbarie in modern Argentine literature -- Unnatural appetites and the case of the cannibal in Korean cinema -- Is "eco" enough? : Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew's The erthring cycle, and evolutionary fiction.