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Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel (Paperback)
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Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
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Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel
responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the
relationship between colonialism and catastrophe. It represents the
first sustained analysis of the connection between colonial legacy
and present-day ecological catastrophe in postcolonial fiction.
Analyzing contemporary South Asian and South Pacific novels that
grapple with climate change and catastrophe, environmental
exploitation and instability, and human-nonhuman relationships in
degraded environments, it offers a much-needed corrective to
dominant narratives about climate, crisis, and the everyday.
Highlighting the contributions of literary fiction from the
postcolonial South to the growing field of the environmental
humanities, this book reconsiders the novel's relationship with
climate change and the contemporary environmental imaginary.
Counter to dominant current theoretical discourses, it demonstrates
that the novel form is ideally suited to literary and imaginative
engagements with climate change and ecological catastrophe. The six
case studies it examines connect contemporary ecological
vulnerability to colonial legacies, reveal the critical role
animals and the environment play in literary imaginations of
post-catastrophe recovery, and together constellate a decolonial
perspective on ecological catastrophe in the era of climate change.
Drawing on the work of Indigenous authors and scholars who write
about and against the Anthropocene, this book displaces
conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the
mundane and the catastrophic and promotes greater dialogue between
the largely siloed fields of postcolonial, Indigenous, and disaster
studies.
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