Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell

Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature (eBook, PDF)

Unsettling the Anthropocene

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a detailed and innovative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. It will be of interest to scholars and students of ecocriticism, environmental humanities, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003815884
• Artikelnr.: 69585794

Autorenporträt

Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of New English Literatures and Cultures, Goethe University Frankfurt. Her areas of focus are transcultural Anglophone Literature, Ecocriticism and Intergenerational Justice. She earned her PhD within the joint programme between Goethe and Monash University in Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Literary Cosmology in the Anthropocene Part 1: CONTEXT / THEORY: From Chaos to Cosmos to Anthropocene? 1. Cosmos within and beyond the Environmental Humanities 2. Cosmos Today: Modern, Transcultural, (Dis)enchanted Part 2: COLONISATION / EXPLOITATION: Reimagining Agriculture and Extraction 3. Remembering the Language of Colonial Agriculture: Carrie Tiffany's Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living 4. Resisting Mining and Regenerating Country through the Wiradjuri Language: Tara June Winch's The Yield Part 3: BIOETHICS / TECHNOLOGY: Revising Human Mastery Narratives 5. Testing the Limits of Apocalyptic Climate Fiction: Briohny Doyle's The Island Will Sink 6. Reconsidering Evolution and Queering Environmentalism: Ellen van Neerven's "Water" Part 4: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE / CUSTODIANSHIP: Towards Sovereign Cosmopolitics 7. Remembering the Opposite of Oppression: Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains 8. Aquatious Mobilisation of Indigenous Sovereignty: Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip Conclusion

Rezensionen

"Bartha-Mitchell's book is an impressive achievement. The theoretical field, which she traces with such consistent care and detail, is formidable and one where its voices often speak at unacknowledged cross-purposes [...] The book's value lies not just in its productive readings of contemporary Australian prose fiction, but as a concise map of environmental critique."

Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, University of Western Australia, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Australia

"An innovative intervention in the environmental humanities, this thought-provoking study of contemporary Australian literature makes a powerful case for the generative concept of cosmos and, more broadly, for the importance of literary studies within the wider field."

Diletta De Cristofaro, Assistant Professor, Northumbria University, UK

"Where most ecocritical scholarship concentrates on stories set in a vulnerable future, Bartha-Mitchell's book disrupts this temporal straight-jacketing by examining texts that - roughly arranged - examine ecological pasts, futures and presents. Cosmological Readings thus introduces readers to new ecocritical stories, to a wider range of primary texts, and challenges limited thinking about where new imaginings on the environment, ecology and climate change might be found."

Geoff Rodoreda, Lecturer, University of Stuttgart, Germany