Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Victorian Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8104080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Miller (0000-0003-1230-8574, University of Northern British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 476-488 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00891.x |
| OpenAlex | W1962689061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 31 |
Since the turn of the twenty‐first century a growing amount of scholarship has focused on the correlations between postcolonial studies and environmental criticism or ecocriticism. Despite the numerous ethical and political connections of global social justice and ecological crisis, postcolonial and ecocritical approaches have historically remained distant from one another. The emergence of postcolonial ecocriticism, however, has aimed to move beyond the mutual unease that has characterized the relationship of these two critical perspectives, formulating a more ecologically aware postcolonialism and a more politically conscious ecocriticism. While the majority of postcolonial‐ecocritical scholarship so far has concentrated on contemporary literature, postcolonial ecocriticism has particular relevance for Victorian Studies. As an era of intensive imperial expansion and industrial development, the nineteenth century comprised a pivotal stage in global environmental history that brought dramatic ecological change to many regions of the world in the same moment that it forged momentous political shifts. After introducing the theoretical premises of postcolonial ecocriticism and situating these within the environmental history of empire, this essay sketches some areas of possibility of this new critical approach for unpacking the global environmental resonances of Victorian literature, concluding with four suggested areas within which a Victorian postcolonial ecocriticism might unfold
Art · Ecocriticism · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Victorian literature · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Psychology · Travel Writing and Literature
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South Africa Is the Land of Pet Animals”; or, The Racializing Assemblages of Colonial Pet-Keeping
Kipling's Bestiary
Introduction
Victorian Ecocriticism
Dancing on a Volcano
Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Classic Children’s Literature, and the Imperial-Environmental Imagination in The Chronicles of Narnia
Green imperialism
When Trees Become Kings
Uncommon ground
Ecology without Nature
Environmentalism and Postcolonialism
Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization
Ecocriticism
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Ways of Reading Animals in Victorian Literature, Culture and Science
Towards a Global Ecology of the Fin de Siècle
The Empire of Nature
Environment and Empire
The Postcolonial Animal
Postcolonial Green
Wilderness into Civilized Shapes
Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies
Postcolonial Environments
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
Ecological Imperialism
Maidens, Maps, and Mines
Green Postcolonialism
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |