Postcolonial ecocriticism : literature, animals, environment
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Postcolonial ecocriticism : literature, animals, environment
Routledge, 2010
- : pbk.
- : hbk.
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p.[217]-235) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine relationships between humans, animals and the environment in postcolonial texts. Divided into two sections that consider the postcolonial first from an environmental and then a zoocritical perspective, the book looks at:
narratives of development in postcolonial writing
entitlement and belonging in the pastoral genre
colonialist 'asset stripping' and the Christian mission
the politics of eating and representations of cannibalism
animality and spirituality
sentimentality and anthropomorphism
the place of the human and the animal in a 'posthuman' world.
Making use of the work of authors as diverse as J.M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Jamaica Kincaid and V.S. Naipaul, the authors argue that human liberation will never be fully achieved without challenging how human societies have constructed themselves in hierarchical relation to other human and nonhuman communities, and without imagining new ways in which these ecologically connected groupings can be creatively transformed.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I. Postcolonialism and the environment 1. Development 2. Entitlement Part II. Zoocriticism and the postcolonial 1. Ivory and elephants 2. Christianity, cannibalism and carnivory 3. Agency, sex and emotion Postscript: After Nature Works Cited Index
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