Matthew Whittle, Jade Munslow Ong

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Global Literature and the Environment (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of imperialist-capitalism, exploring how literature helps us to imagine and create a habitable and just world.

Technische Details

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Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech
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• Seitennummerierung folgt dem gedruckten Werk
• Kurze Alternativtexte für nicht-textuelle Inhalte vorhanden
• Navigierbarer Index mit direktem Zugriff auf Indexbegriffe
• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien

Autor

Matthew Whittle is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Post-War British Literature and the "End of Empire" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Jade Munslow Ong is Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Salford, UK. She is author of Olive Schreiner and African Modernism: Allegory, Empire and Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, 2018).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040096857
• Artikelnr.: 70746958

Rezensionen

"Global Literature and the Environment is a valuable addition to a growing body of scholarship on the role literature and literary criticism might play in addressing the major environmental challenges of our times. Covering a suitably wide range of literary works and provocatively insisting on the instrumentality rather than singularity of literature, the authors adopt a nuanced eco-materialist approach that avoids the rhetorical excesses of elemental ecocriticism (and other versions of new materialism) and the ideological pieties of world-ecology (and other versions of eco-Marxism). Though it might ruffle a few feathers along the way, the book should appeal to postcolonial and environmental humanities scholars alike, and to all

those committed to the continuing pursuit of social and ecological justice in an unevenly developed world."

- Graham Huggan, Professor of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Literatures, Leeds, UK. Co-author of Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment

"Matthew Whittle's and Jade Munslow Ong's Global Literature and the Environment spans continents in terms of the diverse materialities of soil, oil, ice, air, and life and yet the book brings them together in a brilliant array of textual analyses featuring environmental justice and ecological devastation.

The selection of authors and genres is impressive; the literary insights formidable. I highly recommend this book to anyone working or studying in the environmental humanities, comparative literature, Anglophone literature, and environmental justice studies. The book is informative, well-written, beautifully researched, and a significant contribution to our global understanding of the Anthropocene. It is also eminently readable even as it portrays the sheer brutality of extractivist cultures to our planet and its peoples."

- Heather I. Sullivan, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Trinity University, US