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Wilderness Into Civilized Shapes (Hardcover, New)
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Wilderness Into Civilized Shapes (Hardcover, New)
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This study examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental
issues are represented in fiction. Wright creates a provocative
discourse in which the fields of postcolonial theory and
ecocriticism are brought together.
Laura Wright explores the changes brought by colonialism and
globalization as depicted in an array of international works of
fiction in four thematically arranged chapters. She looks first at
two traditional oral histories retold in modern novels, Zakes Mda's
"The Heart of Redness "(South Africa) and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's
"Petals of Blood" (Kenya), that deal with the potentially
devastating effects of development, particularly through
deforestation and the replacement of native flora with European
varieties. Wright then uses J. M. Coetzee's "Disgrace" (South
Africa), Yann Martel's "Life of Pi" (India and Canada), and Joy
Williams's "The Quick and the Dead" (United States) to explore the
use of animals as metaphors for subjugated groups of individuals.
The third chapter deals with India's water crisis via Arundhati
Roy's activism and her novel, "The God of Small Things." Finally,
Wright looks at three novels--Flora Nwapa's "Efuru" (Nigeria), Keri
Hulme's "The Bone People" (New Zealand), and Sindiwe Magona's
"Mother to Mother" (South Africa)--that depict women's
relationships to the land from which they have been dispossessed.
Throughout "Wilderness into Civilized Shapes," Wright
rearticulates questions about the role of the writer of fiction as
environmental activist and spokesperson, the connections between
animal ethics and environmental responsibility, and the potential
perpetuation of a neocolonial framework founded on western
commodification and resource-based imperialism.
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