Wilderness into Civilized Shapes
Reading the Postcolonial Environment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8105324 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M P Jones (0000-0003-0565-4938, corresponding author), M P Jones IV |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 893-894 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1076-0962 • E-ISSN: 1759-1090 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isle/isr093 |
| OpenAlex | W2329316488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
Laura Wright's Wilderness into Civilized Shapes dispels studies in cultural ecology that rely on an edenic mythos of purity and wholeness corrupted and defiled by colonial forces. Instead, Wright reads native and invasive flora in Thiong'o's Petals of Blood and Mda's Heart of Redness as examples of “a connection to an authentic past ... erased by often appealing but insidious European presence in Africa” that challenges future theorists to “struggle to define and occupy a hybrid space” (22). Using the concept of hybridity as a method of uncovering the actual space of modern South Africa, Wright demands that “environmentalism must be informed by but not depend on the past” (55). She affirms that we must dismiss colonial views of pristine wilderness and primitive people, which are “quite simplistic and informed by positions of privilege, sentimentality, and entitlement” (57), and instead urges environmentalists to abandon a polarizing view of nature and seek a middle ground in which nature and culture cohabitate
Aesthetics · Art history · Colonialism · Ecocriticism · Entitlement (fair division · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Performative utterance · Political science · Privilege (computing · Reading (process · Sociology · Wilderness · Wright · American Environmental and Regional History · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Ecology · History · Law · Philosophy
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The media turn in African environmentalism
Overturning the familiar and the exotic
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Reading Postcolonial Animals with the Animist Code
It is the Grass that Suffers”
The Environment of South Asia
Postcolonialism 2010–2014
Animals, others, and postcolonial ecomasculinities
Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Victorian Studies
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |