Justyna Poray-Wybranowska

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000294613
• Artikelnr.: 60736346

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

Chapter 1: Reading Catastrophe through Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, and Animal Studies

Chapter 2: Catastrophe, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships

Part 1: Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss

Part 2: Kim Scott's Benang: From the Heart

Chapter 3: Catastrophe and Human-Nonhuman Relationships in Degraded Environments

Part 1: Uzma Aslam Khan's Thinner than Skin

Part 2: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria

Chapter 4: Land Justice, Resistance, Recovery

Part 1: Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

Part 2: Patricia Grace's Potiki

Conclusion

Rezensionen

"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