Green and Blue Cartographies: Ecocritical and Oceanic Perspectives in the Age of the Anthropocene brings together a rich constellation of contemporary scholarship that interrogates the ecological, oceanic, feminist, and Indigenous dimensions of our planetary condition. With illuminating forewords by Prof. Steve Mentz and Dr Mohammed Muharram-two eminent voices in Blue Humanities and postcolonial ecocriticism-the volume stands at the confluence of environmental thought, cultural memory, and literary imagination.
In an era defined by climate emergency, rising seas, ecological precarity, and rapid socio-cultural transformations, this volume offers an expansive critical map of how literature, culture, and the humanities respond to and reimagine the Anthropocene. Traversing green terrains and blue expanses, the essays collectively foreground the entanglements between land and water, human and non-human, tradition and futurity. Contributors engage a wide range of literary and cultural texts-spanning global, Indian, Indigenous, and oceanic imaginaries-to illuminate how narratives of memory, justice, resilience, and survival are shaped by ecological forces.
The collection charts diverse theoretical pathways: ecofeminism, posthumanism, postcolonial ecocriticism, environmental ethics, Blue Humanities, ecogothic studies, children's environmental literature, and the politics of sustainability. It also probes the ocean as archive, the river as witness, and the Earth as a deeply storied organism marked by grief, hope, and resistance. Through its interdisciplinary reach and its commitment to bridging ecological and oceanic humanities, the volume invites readers to rethink the Anthropocene beyond reductive binaries and towards more inclusive, fluid, and ethical cartographies.
Scholarly yet accessible, Green and Blue Cartographies is an essential resource for researchers, students, and readers interested in environmental humanities, literary studies, cultural ecology, and the evolving discourse of planetary futures.
Mangattu, Manu: -
Manu Mangattu is an English Professor, poet, editor, lyricist, film-critic, research consultant and publishing expert. He has published 9 books, 79 international research publications, 97 academic papers and 20 edited volumes with reputed publishers like Routledge, Harper-Collins, Harvard University Press and Penguin. He serves as chief editor/editor for various international journals and is on the syllabus revision and approval committees of many reputed universities. During his stint as an Assistant Professor of English, he had done UGC funded research projects and a SWAYAM-MOOC course on Romantic Literature. He completed a UGC funded research project on "Sachin Tendulkar as an Aesthetic Experience" in 2017. A poet at heart who would live and die in Art, he writes poetry in English and several Indian languages. A polyglot with a passion for music and film, he finds delight in doing translations from Chinese, Persian and Sanskrit. The Chinese Poetry Conglomerate acknowledged his contributions in taking Chinese Poetry to the Western world by naming him "Comrade to Poetry China" in 2016. A visiting faculty at various universities and a quintessential bohemian-vagabond, he conducts poetry readings, workshops and lectures. He won the prestigious "Most read and recommended researcher award" during the last 3 years (2018, 2019 and 2020) with close to ten thousand recommendations garnered through his career. After an apprenticeship in Shakespeare under Dr Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, Cambridge, he currently offers part-time guidance to 27 research scholars (2 awarded) from India, Iran, Australia, KSA, Indonesia and Djibouti), and mentors about 1300 post-graduates/ guest lecturers/ research scholars preparing for NTA-NET examination. An ambidextrous ambivert blessed with extreme colour blindness, he also plies his trade in the film and publishing industry. He can be contacted at manumangattu@gmail.com, +91-9496322323.
