Prof. Pramod K Nayar, Senior Professor in the Department of English, has published his new book, Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment: Place, Precarity and Justice from Bloomsbury. The book contributes directly to the SDGs research initiative of the University of Hyderabad.
Prof. Pramod K Nayar
About the book:
Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and settler colonies such as Canada and Australia, Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment maps a poetry of ecological care, vulnerability and resilience.
Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment studies the work of over fifty poets from the Global South and the formerly colonized, including John Kinsella, Tanure Ojaide, Linda Hogan, Kofi Awonoor, Okot p’Bitek, Ben Okri, and Sherwin Bitsui. It traces an ecological consciousness that cuts across human and nonhuman, living and non-living domains. It is interested in the making, unmaking and remaking of worlds and meanings in the age of cataclysmic climate shifts, while aware of the histories that fashioned the planet in unjust and unequal ways, and to which the poets bear witness, and propose alternative ways of seeing and meaning-making.
More information at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/postcolonial-poetry-and-the-environment-9781350499126/
Among Pramod Nayar’s most recent books are Vulnerable Earth (Cambridge 2024), Nuclear Cultures (Routledge 2023), The Raj (Bloomsbury 2003), Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs (Springer 2022), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (Routledge 2021), etc. His work on British India, recognized in the form of his election to the Royal Historical Society, includes The British Raj: Keywords (Routledge 2019), the edited The Imperial Archives (5 volumes, Bloomsbury, 2022), Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire (Bloomsbury 2021), and works on 1857. Winner of the Visitor’s Award for Best Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (2018), he holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad in the Department of Liberal Arts.