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"Wilderness into civilized shapes" : reading the postcolonial environment / Laura Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, Laura, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.
- Commonwealth fiction (English).
- Colonies in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Imperialism--Environmental aspects.
- Globalization--Environmental aspects.
- Imperialism.
- Africa--In literature.
- Africa.
- India--In literature.
- India.
- Ecocriticism.
- Physical Description:
- 213 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens ; London : University of Georgia Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction: imagining the postcolonial environment
- Inventing tradition and colonizing the plants: Ngugi wa Thoing'o's Petals of blood and Zakes Mda's Heart of redness
- Safari, zoo, and dog pound: vegetarianism, extinction, and the place of animals in the postcolonial environment
- "Swimming in the river of life" but caught in "the stream of justice": India's water woes and Arundhati Roy
- Prophecy, motherhood, and the land: an exploration of postcolonial ecofeminism
- Conclusion: writing and theorizing the environmental interregnum.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820333960
- 0820333964
- 9780820335681
- 0820335681
- OCLC:
- 445480812
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