Isabel Hoving - Writing the Earth, Darkly: Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire

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This book has grown slowly, in response to the exhilarating developments in academic fields such as Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, and the environmental humanities, and I am deeply indebted to the many colleagues who guided my explorations in these fields. I would like to thank the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University that funded a postdoc-project, my always inspiring, supportive colleagues and fellow travelers of the Department of Film and Literary Studies and the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, and my coteacher Rob Zwijnenberg and the students who participated in the adventure of teaching and studying the environmental humanities. I am grateful to the many scholars who commented on earlier versions or presentations of parts of this book, offered me valuable advice, edited parts of the book in various stages, and/or discussed ideas; among them Mieke Bal, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Maria Cristina Fumagalli and Bndicte Ledent, Catherine Lord, Shani Mootoo, Nanne Timmer, Jonathan Todd, Ginette Verstraete, Gloria Wekker, Janet Wilson, the anonymous readers who commented on this manuscript, and earlier versions of separate chapters, and many others. My understanding of the environmental humanities has greatly benefited from the collaboration with my good friends at EASLCE and Ecozon@, and most recently the Benelux Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment, BASCE. I thank all those who edited earlier versions of parts of these chapters: Sean de Koekkoek, Jonathan Todd (again), Michael Katzberg, and Jonathan Smit. A big thank you, too, to Lindsey Porambo and Marilyn Ehm, the very patient editorial staff at Lexington Books, and Douglas Vakoch, for his support and encouragement. I owe special thanks to Olive Senior for granting me the permission to quote her wonderful poems. They were originally published by Calabash and Insomniac Press. Earlier versions of several chapters in this book were published elsewhere. A previous, shorter version of chapter 2, Alterity, appeared as Moving the Caribbean Landscape: The New Imagination of the Caribbean Environment in Caribbean Womens Writing, pages 15468 in Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture, edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey et al. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005). A much shorter version of chapter 7, Trans, appeared as Broadcasters and Butterflies: Sexual Transgression as Cultural Critique in Dutch Caribbean Writing, pages 477513 in The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Sexual Politics after Binarism, edited by Roberto Del Valle, Alcala Maria Cristina Fumagalli, and Benedicte Ledent (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2014). Both chapters are reproduced with permission of the University of Virginia Press. Fragments of chapter 4 first appeared in my Remaining Where You Are: Kincaid and Glissant on Space and Knowledge, pages 12540 in Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World, edited by Ginette Verstraete and Tim Cresswell (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002). Chapter 8 appeared in an earlier, shorter version as On Invasions, Weeds and Wilderness: The Dutch Imagination of Globalisation (Thrice), 15371 in Global Fissures: Postcolonial Futures, Cross/Cultures 85, edited by Clara A.B. Joseph and Janet Wilson (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006). Chapter 9 appeared in an earlier, shorter version as Opacity and Openness: Creating New Senses of Dutchness, pages 297312 in