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World Literature and Ecology - The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1950 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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World Literature and Ecology - The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1950 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: New Comparisons in World Literature
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Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the
environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry
respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity
frontiers. Examining the sugar, cacao, coal, and oil frontiers in
Trinidad, Brazil, and Britain, World Literature and Ecology shows
how literary texts have registered the relationship between the
re-making of biophysical natures and struggles around class, race,
and gender. It combines a materialist theory of world-literature
with the insights of the world-ecology perspective to generate
compelling new readings of writers such as Rhys Davies, Yseult
Bridges, Lewis Jones, Jose Lins do Rego, Ellen Wilkinson, Jorge
Amado, Gwyn Thomas, and Ralph de Boissiere. The book represents a
timely intervention into a series of field-defining debates around
peripheral realisms and modernisms, ecocriticism, and the energy
humanities.
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