Using the rubric of the "Global South," this volume allows scholars from underrepresented regions to offer commentary on the ecological conditions and environmental cultures in the developing world. The environmentalism of the hungry tide / Priya Kumar -- "The land was wounded" : war ecologies, commodity frontiers and Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard -- Scenes from the global south in China : Zheng Xiaoqiong's poetic agency for labor and environmental justice / Zhou Xiaojing -- Literary isomorphism and the Malayan and Caribbean archipelagos / Christopher Lloyd de Shield -- Wai tangi, waters of grief, wai ora, waters of life : rivers, reports and reconciliation in Aotearoa New Zealand / Charles Dawson -- Fish, coconuts and ocean people : nuclear violations of Oceania's "earthly design" / Dina El Dessouky -- Intimate kinships : who speaks for nature and who listens when nature speaks for herself? / Benay Blend -- Redefining modernity in Latin American fiction : toward ecological consciousness in La loca de gandoca and Lo que soñó / Sebastian Adrian Kane -- Northern Ireland : global south / James McElroy -- "Decline and fall" : empire, land and the twentieth-century Irish "big house" novel / Eóin Flannery -- Landscape and animal tragedy in Nsahlai Nsambu Athanasius's The buffalo rider : ecocritical perspectives, the cameroon experiment / Augustine Nchoujie -- Ecocriticism beyond animist intimations in Things fall apart / Senayon Olaoluwa -- Ecocriticism, globalized cities and African narrative, with a foucs on K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen cents / Anthony Vital -- Environmental and cultural entropy in Bozorg Alavi's "Gilemard" / Zahra Parsapoor -- Environmental consciousness in contemporary Pakistani fiction / Munazza Yaqoob.