UID:
almahu_9949386532402882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 160 pages)
ISBN:
9781000226607
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1000226603
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9781003098393
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1003098398
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9781000226669
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1000226662
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9781000226720
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1000226727
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
Content:
Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sidesaddresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, plantstudies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. Thebook's main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental, vegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and todo that from within the discipline of literary studies. Literary studies inAustralia continue to reflect disinterest or not enough interest in criticalengagements with the subjects of Australia's oldest extant environmentsand other beings beside humans. Packing Death in Australian Literature:Ecocides and Eco-Sides foregrounds the vegetal and nonhumananimal populations and contours of Australian Literature. Critical studiesrelied on in Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides andEco-Sides include books by CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller, Simon C. Estok, Bill Gammage, Timothy Morton, Bruce Pascoe, Val Plumwood, Kate Rigby, John Ryan, Wendy Wheeler, and Cary Wolfe. The selectedliterary texts include work by Merlinda Bobis, Eric Yoshiaki Dando, Nugi Garimara, Francesca Rendle-Short, Patrick White, and Evie Wyld.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- 1 Introduction -- Australian Ecocriticism and Animal Studies -- Posthumanism I -- Posthumanism II -- Chapter Summaries -- 2 Genocide and Ecocide -- Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence -- Walkabout -- 3 (Post- )pastoral -- Bite Your Tongue -- Cow -- All the Birds, Singing -- Oink, Oink, Oink -- 4 Veggie-Might -- Locust Girl -- Australia after 1788: The New Terra Nullius -- 5 Language, Translation, and Communication -- Biosemiotics and Ecocriticism
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Translation Studies: Tips for Translating the Nonhuman Other -- Wish -- Tracks -- Listening -- 6 Conclusion -- Ecophobia -- Ecocriticism and Object-Oriented-Ontology -- Riders in the Chariot -- Final Remarks: "Openness from Closure" -- Works Cited -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Ralph, Iris. Packing Death in Australian Literature : Ecocides and Eco-Sides. Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, ©2020 ISBN 9780367565671
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003098393
