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Climate and Crises - Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse (Paperback)
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Climate and Crises - Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
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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. The
book argues that, in the era of climate change when humans are
facing the prospect of species extinction, new ideas and new forms
of expression are required to address what the novelist Amitav Gosh
calls a "crisis of imagination." Magical realism enables writers to
portray alternative intellectual paradigms, ontologies and
epistemologies that typically contest the scientific rationalism
derived from the European Enlightenment, and the exploitation of
natural resources associated with both capitalism and imperialism.
Climate and Crises explores the overlaps between magical realism
and environmental literature, including their respective
transgressive natures that dismantle binaries (such as human and
non-human), a shared biocentric perspective that focuses on the
inter-connectedness of all things in the universe, and, frequently,
a critique of postcolonial legacies in formerly colonised
territories. The book also challenges conventional conceptions of
magical realism, arguing they are often influenced by a geographic
bias in the construction of the orthodox global canon, and instead
examines contemporary fiction from Asia (including China) and
Australasia, two regions that have been largely neglected by
scholarship of the narrative mode. As a result, the monograph
modifies and expands our ideas of what magical realist fiction is.
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