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The Literature of Climate Crisis

Prof. Pramod K Nayar · University of Hyderabad

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About

This course is a survey of the Literature of Climate Crisis. Focusing principally on poetry, fiction and graphic novels from the 1990s (when ‘climate change’ enters the public discourse following the first Earth Summit), it provides an introduction to the aesthetics, form and politics of environmental literature from around the world. It concludes with a section on environmental justice.

Intended audience: Literary Studies scholars

Lectures

Week 1

  1. Literature & the Enviroment YouTube
  2. Why Literature in the age of climate crisis - I YouTube
  3. Why Literature in the age of climate crisis - II YouTube
  4. The Poetics of Unsettlement YouTube
  5. Poetry as Response to Enviroment Crisis YouTube

Week 2

  1. Poscolonial Enviromental Novel YouTube
  2. Postcolonial Enviromental Crisis in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh YouTube
  3. The Enviromental Memoir YouTube
  4. Indian Graphic Novels and Enviromental Consciousness YouTube
  5. Group Discussion YouTube

Week 3

  1. The Idea of Wilderness YouTube
  2. Carnal Geographies - I YouTube
  3. Carnal Geographies - II YouTube
  4. BOGS, SWAMPS & WATERY BODIES YouTube
  5. The post natural YouTube

Week 4

  1. Anthropocentrism and Speciesism YouTube
  2. Writing Extinction YouTube
  3. The world is Ending YouTube
  4. The world is ending - II YouTube
  5. Rewilding YouTube

Week 5

  1. Creaturescapes Multispecies Vulnerabilities YouTube
  2. Multispecies Writing YouTube
  3. Introduction to Concepts and a Recent Overview of Contects YouTube
  4. Discussion of case studies & Reflections Enabled by Biomutation Narratives YouTube
  5. Group Discussion YouTube

Week 6

  1. Habitats and Habitation YouTube
  2. Habitats & Habitation - II YouTube
  3. Ecological Grief YouTube
  4. The RE Enchantment of the World YouTube
  5. Group Discussion YouTube

Week 7

  1. Colonialism Neocolonialism & the Environment YouTube
  2. Waste Toxic Enviroments & 'Sacrifice Zones' YouTube
  3. Nature Care & Stewardship in Postcolonial Poetry YouTube
  4. The Literature of Extractivism YouTube
  5. Postcolonialism & Ecological Thought YouTube

Week 8

  1. The oceanic experience of Indian Indenture YouTube
  2. The Neo Slave Novel YouTube
  3. The Literature of Animal Rights:Justice YouTube
  4. Why Ecopedagogy is Important ? YouTube
  5. Enviromentality YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
University of Hyderabad
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Pramod K Nayar
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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