Wilderness Into Civilized Shapes : Reading the Postcolonial Environment

Laura Wright

ISBN 10: 0820335681 / ISBN 13: 9780820335681

Edité par University Of Georgia Press Apr 2010, 2010

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Neuware - Examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. It explores the changes brought by colonialism and globalization as depicted in an array of international works of fiction in four thematically arranged chapters.

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• Titre: Wilderness Into Civilized Shapes : Reading the Postcolonial Environment
• Éditeur: University Of Georgia Press Apr 2010
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0820335681
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780820335681
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 228 L x 151 H x 22 P (en millimètres) 228 millimètres de largeur par 151 millimètres de hauteur par 22 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 316 grammes

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Synopsis

This study examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. Wright creates a provocative discourse in which the fields of postcolonial theory and ecocriticism are brought together.

Laura Wright explores the changes brought by colonialism and globalization as depicted in an array of international works of fiction in four thematically arranged chapters. She looks first at two traditional oral histories retold in modern novels, Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (South Africa) and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood (Kenya), that deal with the potentially devastating effects of development, particularly through deforestation and the replacement of native flora with European varieties. Wright then uses J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (South Africa), Yann Martel's Life of Pi (India and Canada), and Joy Williams's The Quick and the Dead (United States) to explore the use of animals as metaphors for subjugated groups of individuals. The third chapter deals with India's water crisis via Arundhati Roy's activism and her novel, The God of Small Things. Finally, Wright looks at three novels--Flora Nwapa's Efuru (Nigeria), Keri Hulme's The Bone People (New Zealand), and Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother (South Africa)--that depict women's relationships to the land from which they have been dispossessed.

Throughout Wilderness into Civilized Shapes, Wright rearticulates questions about the role of the writer of fiction as environmental activist and spokesperson, the connections between animal ethics and environmental responsibility, and the potential perpetuation of a neocolonial framework founded on western commodification and resource-based imperialism.

À propos de l?auteur

LAURA WRIGHT is the founder of the field of vegan studies. She is professor of English at Western Carolina University and the author of The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror (Georgia). Most recently, she edited The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies. She lives in Cullowhee, North Carolina.