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Climate change, ecological catastrophe, and the contemporary postcolonial novel

Title
Climate change, ecological catastrophe, and the contemporary postcolonial novel / Justyna Poray-Wybranowska.
Author
Poray-Wybranowska, Justyna
Publication
  • New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Description
vii, 236 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the relationship between colonialism and catastrophe. It represents the first sustained analysis of the connection between colonial legacy and present-day ecological catastrophe in postcolonial fiction. Analyzing contemporary South Asian and South Pacific novels that grapple with climate change and catastrophe, environmental exploitation and instability, and human-nonhuman relationships in degraded environments, it offers a much-needed corrective to dominant narratives about climate, crisis, and the everyday. Highlighting the contributions of literary fiction from the postcolonial South to the growing field of the environmental humanities, this book reconsiders the novel's relationship with climate change and the contemporary environmental imaginary. Counter to dominant current theoretical discourses, it demonstrates that the novel form is ideally suited to literary and imaginative engagements with climate change and ecological catastrophe. The six case studies it examines connect contemporary ecological vulnerability to colonial legacies, reveal the critical role animals and the environment play in literary imaginations of post-catastrophe recovery, and together constellate a decolonial perspective on ecological catastrophe in the era of climate change. Drawing on the work of Indigenous authors and scholars who write about and against the Anthropocene, this book displaces conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the mundane and the catastrophic and promotes greater dialogue between the largely siloed fields of postcolonial, Indigenous, and disaster studies"--
Series Statement
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
Uniform Title
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment.
Subject
  • Climatic changes in literature
  • Disasters in literature
  • Ecocriticism
  • Postcolonialism in literature
  • South Asian fiction (English) > History and criticism
  • Pacific Island literature (English) > History and criticism
  • Pacific Island literature (English)
  • South Asian fiction (English)
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [208]-230) and index.
Call Number
JFE 21-5120
ISBN
  • 9780367528966
  • 0367528967
LCCN
  • 2020034934
  • 40030405024
OCLC
1178631930
Author
Poray-Wybranowska, Justyna, author.
Title
Climate change, ecological catastrophe, and the contemporary postcolonial novel / Justyna Poray-Wybranowska.
Publisher
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [208]-230) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Poray-Wybranowska, Justyna, Climate change, ecological catastrophe, and the contemporary postcolonial novel New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. 9781003079767 (DLC) 2020034935
Other Standard Identifier
40030405024
Research Call Number
JFE 21-5120
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