Postcolonial Ecocriticism

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ID19004628
AuthorsGraham Huggan, Helen Tiffin
Year2009
Publication date2009-12-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePostcolonial ecocriticism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203498170
OpenAlexW4247553777
Open LibraryOL24115179M
ISBN9780203498170
LanguageEN
Citations received54

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

Ecocriticism · Environmental ethics · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Philosophy · Animals in literature · Animaux dans la littérature · Biography & Autobiography · Colonies in literature · Commonwealth fiction (English) · Commonwealth literature (english) · Commonwealth literature (english), history and criticism · Écocritique · Écologie humaine dans la littérature · English literature · English literature, history and criticism · History and criticism · Human ecology in literature · Human-animal relationships in literature · Literary · Literature · Postcolonialism in literature · Postcolonialisme dans la littérature · Relations homme-animal dans la littérature

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