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Wilderness into civilized shapes : reading the postcolonial environment
- Title
- Wilderness into civilized shapes : reading the postcolonial environment / Laura Wright.
- Author
- Wright, Laura, 1970-
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- 213 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-3491
- ISBN
- 9780820333960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0820333964 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780820335681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0820335681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009039765
- OCLC
- YBP 2009039765
- Author
- Wright, Laura, 1970-
- Title
- Wilderness into civilized shapes : reading the postcolonial environment / Laura Wright.
- Imprint
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-3491