Andrew Mahlstedt Field : “20th-21st c. British and World Literature” and " Theories of Ecocriticism and Environmentalism of the Poor" Field Supervisor: Rob Nixon Department English Date of exam: August, 2008 Advisor's Name: Rob Nixon

I. 20th-21 st c. British Novel

1. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)

2. --. The Secret Agent. (1907)

3. E. M. Forster. Howard’s End. (1910)

4. --. A Passage to India. (1924)

5. James Joyce. --.Ulysses. (1922)

6. Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway. (1925)

7. --. To the Lighthouse. (1927)

8. --. Three Guineas. (1938)

9. George Orwell. Burmese Days. (1934) and “Shooting an Elephant” (1936)

10. Doris Lessing. The Grass is Singing. (1950)

11. Verrier Elwin. The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin: An Autobiography. (1964)

12. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Heat and Dust. (1975)

13. Salman Rushdie. Midnight’s Children. (1980)

14. Graham Swift. Waterland. (1983)

15. Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day. (1989)

16. --. Never Let Me Go. (2005)

17. Yann Martel. The Life of Pi. (2002)

1 18. Monica Ali. Brick Lane. (2003)

II. 20 th -21 st c. Postcolonial and Anglophone Novel

1. Rabindranath Tagore. The Home and the World. (1919)

2. Mulk Raj Anand. Untouchable. (1935)

3. Graciliano Ramos. Barren Lives. (Vidas Secas) (1935)

4. Kushwant Singh. Train to Pakistan (1956)

5. Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart. (1959)

6. Kamala Markandaya. Nectar in a Sieve. (1965)

7. Tayeb Salih. Season of Migration to the North. (1967)

8. Ngugi wa Thiong’o. A Grain of Wheat. (1967)

9. Bharati Mukherjee. The Tiger’s Daughter. (1971)

10. Nadine Gordimer. The Conservationist. (1974)

11. Clarice Lispector. The Hour of the Star. (A Hora da Estrela) (1977)

12. Ama Ata Aidoo. Our Sister Killjoy. (1977)

13. Peter Mathiessen. The Snow Leopard (1979)

14. J.M. Coetzee. Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)

15. --. Life and Times of Michael K. (1983)

16. --. Disgrace. (1999)

17. Jamaica Kincaid. Annie John. (1983)

18. --.A Small Place. (1988)

19. Michael Ondaatje. Running in the Family (1982)

20. --. Anil’s Ghost. (2000)

21. Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

2 22. --. Oryx and Crake. (2004)

23. Keri Hulme. The Bone People. (1985)

24. Karen Tei Yamashita. Through the Arc of the Rainforest. (1990)

25. Mahasweta Devi. Bashai Tudu. (1990)

26. --. “Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha” and “The Hunt” in Imaginary Maps. (1993)

27. Amitav Ghosh. In an Antique Land. (1992)

28. --. The Hungry Tide (2004)

29. Ben Okri. The Famished Road. (1991)

30. Ken Saro-Wiwa. A Month and A Day: A Detention Diary. (1995)

31. Pepetela. The Return of the Water Spirit. (1995)

32. Mia Couto. Under the Frangipani. (1996)

33. --. The Last Flight of the Flamingo. (2005)

34. Arundhati Roy. The God of Small Things. (1997)

35. Earl Lovelace. Salt. (1997)

36. Maniza Naqvi. Mass Transit. (1998)

37. Yvonne Vera. The Stone Virgins. (2002)

38. Chris Abani. Graceland. (2004)

39. Wangaari Maathai. Unbowed. (2006)

40. Zakes Mda. The Whale Caller. (2006)

41. Mario Vargas Llosa. Death in the Andes. (Lituma en los Andes) (2007)

42. Indra Sinha. Animal’s People. (2007)

III. Theories of Ecocriticism and Environmentalism of the Poor

3 1. Raymond Williams. The Country and the City. (1975)

2. --. “Ideas of Nature” (1980)

3. Neil Smith. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space. (1983)

4. Ramachandra Guha. The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya. (1989)

5. --. Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South (w/ Juan Martinez- Allier) (1997) Selections

6. --. Nature, Culture, Imperialism. (w/ David Arnold) (1997) Selections

7. --.Environmentalism: A Global History. (2000)

8. David Harvey. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. (1989)

9. --. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference. (1997)

10. --. “What’s Green and Makes the World Go Round”, from Frederic Jameson and Misao Miyoshi (eds.). The Cultures of Globalization. (1998).

11. Alexander Cockburn and Susanna Hecht. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. (1990)

12. W. Sachs, Global Ecology: A new arena of political conflict (1993)

13. Rebecca Solnit. “Dust, or Erasing the Future: The Nevada Test Site” in Savage Dreams. (1994)

14. Lawrence Buell. “Environmental Apocalypticism” in The Environmental Imagination (1995)

15. --. Writing for an Endangered World. (2003)

16. --. The Future of Environmentalism (2005)

17. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, eds., The Ecocriticism Reader. (1996). Selections.

18. Akhil Gupta. “Introduction” and “Peasants and Environmentalism: A New Form of Governmentality?” in Postcolonial Developments. (1998)

4 19. Al Gedicks. Resource Rebels. (2001) Selections.

20. Arjun Appadurai (ed.). Globalization. (2001)

21. Anna Tsing, et. al. (eds.) Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia. (2003) Selections.

22. Juan Martinez Alier. The Environmentalism of the Poor: A study of ecological conflicts and valuation. (2003)

23. Graham Huggan. “’Greening’ Postcolonialism: Ecocritical Perspectives” in Modern Fiction Studies 50:3 (Fall 2004, p. 701-733)

24. Rob Nixon. “Environmentalism and Postcolonialism.” Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. Ed. Ania Loomba et al. (2005)

25. Anna Tsing. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. (2005)

26. Jill Casid. Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonialism. (2005)

27. Barry Lopez (ed.). The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine. (2007) Selections.

28. Mike Davis. Planet of Slums. (2007)

29. Naomi Klein. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. (2008) Selections.

30. Ursula Heise. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. (2008)

31. Pablo Mukherjee. Postcolonial Environments. (2010)

32. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin. Postcolonial Ecocriticism. (2010)

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