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Packing Death in Australian Literature

Ecocides and Eco-Sides

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvIris Ralph

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-17
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt362 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
Antal sidor160
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367565671

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Iris Ralph holds a B.Sc. (Pharmacology), Monash University; B.A. (English), San Francisco State University; M.A. (English) and Ph.D. (English), The University of Texas at Austin; and Graduate Diploma in TESOL & Literacy, Victoria University. Dr. Ralph currently teaches in the English Department of Tamkang University. She joined the faculty in 2009 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. Dr. Ralph has published many journal articles and book chapters that focus on ecocritical and environmental concerns.

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTIONAustralian Ecocriticism and Animal StudiesPosthumanism IPosthumanism IIChapter SummariesCHAPTER TWO: GENOCIDE AND ECOCIDEFollow the Rabbit-Proof FenceWalkaboutCHAPTER THREE: (POST-)PASTORALBite Your TonguePhilomela and Theseus, aka Animal Advocates and the Meat IndustryCowAll the Birds, SingingPost-Pastoral, the Black Sheep of PastoralOink, Oink, OinkTransgenic Matter on a Porcine PlatterCHAPTER FOUR: VEGE-MIGHTLocust GirlAustralia after 1788: the new terra nulliusCHAPTER FIVE: LANGUAGE, TRANSLATION, AND COMMUNICATIONBiosemiotics and EcocriticismTranslation Studies: Tips for Translating the Nonhuman OtherWishTracksListeningCHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSIONEcophobiaEcocriticism and Object-Oriented-OntologyRiders in the ChariotFinal remarks: "Openness from Closure"