Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature - Unsettling the Anthropocene

This book presents a detailed and innovative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. It will be of interest to scholars and students of ecocriticism, environmental humanities, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies.

Sommario

Introduction: Literary Cosmology in the Anthropocene Part 1: CONTEXT / THEORY: From Chaos to Cosmos to Anthropocene? 1. Cosmos within and beyond the Environmental Humanities 2. Cosmos Today: Modern, Transcultural, (Dis)enchanted Part 2: COLONISATION / EXPLOITATION: Reimagining Agriculture and Extraction 3. Remembering the Language of Colonial Agriculture: Carrie Tiffany's Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living 4. Resisting Mining and Regenerating Country through the Wiradjuri Language: Tara June Winch's The Yield Part 3: BIOETHICS / TECHNOLOGY: Revising Human Mastery Narratives 5. Testing the Limits of Apocalyptic Climate Fiction: Briohny Doyle's The Island Will Sink 6. Reconsidering Evolution and Queering Environmentalism: Ellen van Neerven's "Water" Part 4: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE / CUSTODIANSHIP: Towards Sovereign Cosmopolitics 7. Remembering the Opposite of Oppression: Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains 8. Aquatious Mobilisation of Indigenous Sovereignty: Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip Conclusion

Info autore

Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of New English Literatures and Cultures, Goethe University Frankfurt. Her areas of focus are transcultural Anglophone Literature, Ecocriticism and Intergenerational Justice. She earned her PhD within the joint programme between Goethe and Monash University in Melbourne.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032319643
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231964-3
• Pagine: 198
• Serie: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; FICTION / Literary, Climate Change, NATURE / Essays, NATURE / Ecology, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Applied ecology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Australasia, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Literary studies: postcolonial literature