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Climate change, ecological catastrophe, and the contemporary postcolonial novel / Justyna Poray-Wybranowska.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poray-Wybranowska, Justyna, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes in literature.
- Disasters in literature.
- Ecocriticism.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- South Asian fiction (English)--History and criticism.
- South Asian fiction (English).
- Pacific Island literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Pacific Island literature (English).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 236 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- 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).
- Contents:
- A Crisis of the Imagination p. 1
- Climate Change, Catastrophe, and the Anthropocene p. 5
- Popular Perceptions of Climate Change p. 10
- Why Read Novels about Climate Change and Catastrophe? p. 11
- Chapter Breakdown p. 21
- 1 Reading Catastrophe through Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, Indigenous Studies, and Animal Studies p. 32
- Racism, (Neo)Colonialism, and Environmental Justice p. 32
- Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Catastrophe p. 33
- Colonial Roots: Colonialism, Environment, Environmentalism p. 36
- Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene p. 40
- Defining Catastrophe (Catastrophe versus Apocalypse versus Disaster) p. 43
- The Nonhuman Turn p. 46
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature p. 47
- Animal Studies p. 50
- Problems and Contributions p. 52
- 2 Catastrophe, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships p. 58
- Colonialism, Catastrophe, and the Everyday p. 58
- Colonialism and Its Aftermath in the Context of Climate Change: Race, Indigeneity, and Socio-Ecological Vulnerability p. 60
- Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss p. 63
- Synopsis and Literature Review p. 63
- Socioeconomic Hierarchies and Power Dynamics: Caste, Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity p. 66
- Racism and Colonialism p. 73
- Precarity, Vulnerability, and Catastrophe p. 76
- Reflection, Renegotiation, and Human-Animal Relationships p. 78
- Kim Scott's Benang: From the Heart p. 80
- Synopsis and Literature Review p. 80
- Form, Perspective, and the Desensationalization of Violence p. 82
- Colonial Law, Segregation, and Control p. 84
- Control, Violence, and the Body p. 88
- Control, Violence, and the Environment p. 91
- The Bushfire p. 93
- 3 Catastrophe and Human-Nonhuman Relationships in Degraded Environments p. 104
- Animals, Climate Change, and Ecological Catastrophe p. 104
- Uzma Aslam Khan's Thinner Than Skin p. 106
- Synopsis and Literature Review p. 106
- Colonial Law and Human-Nonhuman Relationships p. 108
- Ecological Vulnerability and Earthquakes p. 115
- Disappearance of Local Species p. 119
- Animals and Catastrophe p. 123
- Alexis Wright's Carpentaria p. 125
- Synopsis and Literature Review p. 125
- Racial/Racist Geographies and Their Legacy p. 127
- Catastrophe in the Novel: The Cyclone and the Mine p. 129
- Narrative Form: Dreaming, Indigenous Cosmologies, and "Aboriginal Realism" p. 133
- Animals in the Novel p. 137
- Animals and the Mine p. 140
- Animals and the Cyclone p. 141
- New Beginnings p. 144
- 4 Land Justice, Resistance, Recovery p. 157
- The Physical Environment p. 157
- Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide p. 159
- Synopsis and Literature Review p. 159
- The Sundarbans p. 160
- Narrative Structure p. 162
- Space-Time Compression and Nonhuman Actants p. 163
- Project Tiger and the Morichjhãpi Massacre p. 167
- Indigenous Peoples and Conservation Priorities p. 169
- Catastrophe and Environmental Trauma p. 174
- Patricia Grace's Potiki p. 178
- Synopsis and Literature Review p. 178
- The Colonization of New Zealand: Historical and Environmental Context p. 181
- Stories, Perspectives, and Now-Time p. 183
- Racism and Colonial Capital p. 185
- Land and Resistance p. 188
- Land, Community, Identity p. 189
- Ecological Degradation p. 191
- Floor, Fire, and Explosion p. 192
- Recovery, Cyclicality, and the Everyday p. 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 11, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Poray-Wybranowska, Justyna. Climate change, ecological catastrophe, and the contemporary postcolonial novel
- ISBN:
- 9781003079767
- 1003079768
- 9781000294613
- 1000294617
- 9781000294569
- 1000294560
- 9781000294514
- 100029451X
- Publisher Number:
- 40030354700
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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