Environmentality : : ecocriticism and the event of postcolonial fiction /

Environmentality : : ecocriticism and the event of postcolonial fiction / / Roman Bartosch.

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This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluating concepts of nature and animality, describing one’s individual environment as the starting point for such negotiations. It employs the notion of the ‘literary event’ to discuss the specific literar...

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Superior document:Nature, culture and literature ; 09
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Bartosch, Roman.
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Nature, culture and literature ; 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
Notes:Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D)--Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The State of Environmental Literary Criticism
  • Postcolonial Texts and the ‘Event of Ficton’
  • A Good Dose of Formalism? Reading The Hungry Tide
  • Facets of EnvironMentality
  • The Uses of F(r)iction: The Heart of Redness, The Whale Caller and Their Critique of Sustainable Development and Becoming-Animal
  • Negotiating the Human-Animal Boundary: Intertextuality and Metafiction in Life of Pi and Beatrice and Virgil
  • “Zero Time” and the Apocalypse: Postnatural Survival in Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood
  • Posthumanism and the Wounded Being: ‘Transformative Mimesis’ in The Lives of Animals and Elizabeth Costello
  • Towards and Beyond a Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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