Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel

AvJustyna Poray-Wybranowska

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the relationship between colonialism and catastrophe. It represents the first sustained analysis of the connection between colonial legacy and present-day ecological catastrophe in postcolonial fiction. Analyzing contemporary South Asian and South Pacific novels that grapple with climate change and catastrophe, environmental exploitation and instability, and human-nonhuman relationships in degraded environments, it offers a much-needed corrective to dominant narratives about climate, crisis, and the everyday. Highlighting the contributions of literary fiction from the postcolonial South to the growing field of the environmental humanities, this book reconsiders the novel’s relationship with climate change and the contemporary environmental imaginary. Counter to dominant current theoretical discourses, it demonstrates that the novel form is ideally suited to literary and imaginative engagements with climate change and ecological catastrophe. The six case studies it examines connect contemporary ecological vulnerability to colonial legacies, reveal the critical role animals and the environment play in literary imaginations of post-catastrophe recovery, and together constellate a decolonial perspective on ecological catastrophe in the era of climate change. Drawing on the work of Indigenous authors and scholars who write about and against the Anthropocene, this book displaces conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the mundane and the catastrophic and promotes greater dialogue between the largely siloed fields of postcolonial, Indigenous, and disaster studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-12-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
Antal sidor:236
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367528966

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Justyna Poray-Wybranowska holds a PhD in English and World Literature from York University, with a specialization in environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, disaster studies, and animal studies. The research on which this book is based was jointly funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by York University. Poray-Wybranowska’s research has been published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2020), Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim (2020), Otherness: Essays and Studies (2016), Studies in Canadian Literature (2014), HARTS & Minds (2014), and Just Politics? (2014).

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"In her first monograph, Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel, Justyna Poray-Wybranowska offers a revised understanding of catastrophe in postcolonial fiction… a timely addition to a recent wealth of publications in the field of postcolonial ecocriticism."-- Demi Wilton, Loughborough University, UK“Poray-Wybranowska’s Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel is scholarly, with a well-articulated argument supported succinctly by relevant theory… This is an avenue of enquiry of increasing importance that has the potential to connect cross-disciplinarily with studies in social theory, ecocriticism, literatures of climate change, and interdisciplinary studies across the environmental humanities.”--Kate Judith, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1: Reading Catastrophe through Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, and Animal StudiesChapter 2: Catastrophe, Vulnerability, and Human RelationshipsPart 1: Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of LossPart 2: Kim Scott’s Benang: From the HeartChapter 3: Catastrophe and Human-Nonhuman Relationships in Degraded EnvironmentsPart 1: Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner than SkinPart 2: Alexis Wright’s CarpentariaChapter 4: Land Justice, Resistance, RecoveryPart 1: Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry TidePart 2: Patricia Grace’s PotikiConclusion