Postcolonial pastoral refracts idealized nature through colonial degradation memories.

Evidence

The result is a kind of writing that I have called postcolonial pastoral, writing that refracts an idealized nature through memories of environmental and cultural degradation in the colonies. Postcolonial pastoral can be loosely viewed as a kind of environmental double-consciousness. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 754

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional coinage of the chapter, analogous to the ‘transnational ethics of place’ Nixon is building.
• XREF: Parallels Du Bois’s double-consciousness concept and connects to the storytelling/interpretation strand of the reader’s polyad. — connects to: An immigrant’s colonial memory dissolves the self-enclosed English pastoral idyll. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 756