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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Land Acknowledgement and Positionality Statement -- Introduction -- A Crisis of the Imagination -- Climate Change, Catastrophe, and the Anthropocene -- Popular Perceptions of Climate Change -- Why Read Novels about Climate Change and Catastrophe? -- Chapter Breakdown -- Chapter 1: Reading Catastrophe through Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, and Animal Studies -- Chapter 2: Catastrophe, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships -- Chapter 3: Catastrophe and Human- Nonhuman Relationships in Degraded Environments -- Chapter 4: Land Justice, Resistance, and Post- Catastrophe Recovery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 Reading Catastrophe through Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, Indigenous Studies, and Animal Studies -- Racism, (Neo)Colonialism, and Environmental Justice -- Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Catastrophe -- Colonial Roots: Colonialism, Environment, Environmentalism -- Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene -- Defining Catastrophe (Catastrophe versus Apocalypse versus Disaster) -- The Nonhuman Turn -- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature -- Animal Studies -- Problems and Contributions -- Notes -- 2 Catastrophe, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships -- Colonialism, Catastrophe, and the Everyday -- Colonialism and Its Aftermath in the Context of Climate Change: Race, Indigeneity, and Socio-Ecological Vulnerability -- Kiran Dessi's the Inheritance of Loss -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- Socioeconomic Hierarchies and Power Dynamics: Caste, Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity -- Lepcha Characters -- Wealthy/Powerful Indian Characters -- Gorkha Characters -- Racism and Colonialism -- Precarity, Vulnerability, and Catastrophe.
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