How does literary fiction, and a body of scholarly criticism increasingly associated with the category of World Literature engage narrations of the natural world within contexts of transnational mobility, displacement and diaspora (the movement of economic and environmental refugees from the Global South, a phenomenon that, in turn, currently challenges twentieth-century notions of political rights associated with nationality and citizenship)? How do narratives embedded in contemporary art-forms, in literary modes of story-telling, indigenous folklore, and in the relation of communal expression to knowledge-claims allow us to imagine, engage and evaluate current environmental crises, as well as assertions of postcolonial environmentalisms? Can aesthetic mobilizations of non-human forms and materialities – in the spaces of art or in narrative – permit nature to bear witness, in legal or evidentiary terms, to its own damage? The intersection of World Literature and Ecocriticism enables the reader to traverse questions of gender, sexuality, and race as they apply to discourses in cultural narratives, ecopolitics, environmental activism, and the civic memory of violence in human and non-human casualties, as these mark the aftermath of imperial enterprise; neo-colonial modes of national development, and in the international organization of markets through the identification of ever-expanding commodity frontiers and processes of intensive extraction.