Postcolonial ecocriticism : literature, animals, environment / Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huggan, Graham, 1958- author.

Tiffin, Helen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Human ecology in literature.

Animals in literature.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

This second edition of the foundational work Postcolonial Ecocriticism has been fully updated to consider new developments since its original publication in 2010. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine relationships between humans, animals and the environment in postcolonial literary texts, newly addressing such key areas as climate change studies, disability studies and queer ecology. Considering the postcolonial first from an environmental and then a zoocritical perspective, the book looks at: narratives of development in postcolonial writing, entitlement and belonging in the pastoral genre, colonial 'asset stripping' and the Christian mission, the politics of eating and representation of cannibalism, animality and spirituality, sentimentality and anthropomorphism, the place of the humans and the animals in a 'posthuman' world. Re-visiting the work of authors as diverse as J.M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Jamaica Kincaid and V.S. Naipaul, this landmark text offers a comprehensive introduction to a dynamic subject area, usefully adding a select annotated bibliography at the end. Book jacket.

Contents:

Development

Entitlement

Ivory and elephants

Christianity, cannibalism and carnivory

Agency, sex and emotion

Postscript: After nature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138784185

1138784184

9781138784192

1138784192

OCLC:

894128479