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Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place (Hardcover)
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Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
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The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place
are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at
the turn of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the notion of
place as a way of interrogating the socio-political and
environmental pressures that have been seen as negatively affecting
our environments since the advent of modernity, as well as the
solutions that have been given as an antidote to those pressures.
Examining a selection of literary representations of place from
across the globe, the book illuminates the multilayered and
polyvocal ways in which literary works render local and global
ecological relations of places. In this way, it problematises more
traditional environmentalism and its somewhat essentialised idea of
place by intersecting the largely Western discourse of
environmental studies with postcolonial and Indigenous studies,
thus considering the ways in which forms of emplacement can occur
within displacement and dispossession, especially within societies
that are dealing with the legacies of colonialism, neocolonial
exploitation or international pressure to conform. As such, the
work foregrounds the singular processes in which different
local/global communities recognise themselves in their diverse
approaches to the environment, and gestures towards an
environmental politics that is based on an epistemology of contact,
connection and difference, and as one, moreover, that recognises
its own epistemological limits. This book will appeal to
researchers working in the fields of environmental humanities,
postcolonial studies, Indigenous studies and comparative
literature.
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