Ben Holgate

Climate and Crises

Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse

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Produktbeschreibung

Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse makes a dual intervention in both world literature and ecocriticism by examining magical realism as an international style of writing that has long-standing links with environmental literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781138553484
• ISBN-10: 1138553484
• Artikelnr.: 55077296

Autorenporträt

Ben Holgate is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Previously, he was Associate Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A crisis of imagination
Chapter One:
'Expanded reality': Alexis Wright's revitalisation of Dreamtime narratives
Chapter Two:
Sublime wilderness: Embracing the non-human in Richard Flanagan's Tasmania
Chapter Three:
'The oneness is still with us': Oceanic mythology in Witi Ihimaera's The
Whale Rider
Chapter Four:
'Heart, spirit, and inclination:' Reconciliation in Keri Hulme's The Bone
People
Chapter Five:
Mosquitoes and malaria: Counter-science and colonial archives in Amitav
Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome
Chapter Six:
Purity and parody: Mo Yan's resistance to Western magical realism in
pursuit of his own Chinese style
Chapter Seven:
Planetary perspective: Addressing climate change in Wu Ming-yi's The Man
with the Compound Eyes
Conclusion