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050		4	_aPN56.C612 .P673 2021
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100	1		_aPoray-Wybranowska, Justyna.
245	1	0	_aClimate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aOxford : _bTaylor & Francis Group, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2021.
300			_a1 online resource (247 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aRoutledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment Series
505	0		_aCover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Land Acknowledgement and Positionality Statement -- Introduction -- A Crisis of the Imagination -- Climate Change, Catastrophe, and the Anthropocene -- Popular Perceptions of Climate Change -- Why Read Novels about Climate Change and Catastrophe? -- Chapter Breakdown -- Chapter 1: Reading Catastrophe through Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, and Animal Studies -- Chapter 2: Catastrophe, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships -- Chapter 3: Catastrophe and Human- Nonhuman Relationships in Degraded Environments -- Chapter 4: Land Justice, Resistance, and Post- Catastrophe Recovery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 Reading Catastrophe through Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, Indigenous Studies, and Animal Studies -- Racism, (Neo)Colonialism, and Environmental Justice -- Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Catastrophe -- Colonial Roots: Colonialism, Environment, Environmentalism -- Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene -- Defining Catastrophe (Catastrophe versus Apocalypse versus Disaster) -- The Nonhuman Turn -- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature -- Animal Studies -- Problems and Contributions -- Notes -- 2 Catastrophe, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships -- Colonialism, Catastrophe, and the Everyday -- Colonialism and Its Aftermath in the Context of Climate Change: Race, Indigeneity, and Socio-Ecological Vulnerability -- Kiran Dessi's the Inheritance of Loss -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- Socioeconomic Hierarchies and Power Dynamics: Caste, Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity -- Lepcha Characters -- Wealthy/Powerful Indian Characters -- Gorkha Characters -- Racism and Colonialism -- Precarity, Vulnerability, and Catastrophe.
505	8		_aReflection, Renegotiation, and Human-Animal Relationships -- Conclusion -- Kim Scott's Benang : From the Heart -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- Form, Perspective, and the Desensationalization of Violence -- Colonial Law, Segregation, and Control -- Control, Violence, and the Body -- Control, Violence, and the Environment -- The Bushfire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Catastrophe and Human-Nonhuman Relationships in Degraded Environments -- Animals, Climate Change, and Ecological Catastrophe -- Uzma Aslam Khan's Thinner Than Skin -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- Colonial Law and Human-Nonhuman Relationships -- Ecological Vulnerability and Earthquakes -- Disappearance of Local Species -- Animals and Catastrophe -- Conclusion -- Alexis Wright's Carpentaria -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- Racial/Racist Geographies and Their Legacy -- Catastrophe in the Novel: The Cyclone and the Mine -- Narrative Form: Dreaming, Indigenous Cosmologies, and "Aboriginal Realism" -- Animals in the Novel -- Animals and the Mine -- Animals and the Cyclone -- New Beginnings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Land Justice, Resistance, Recovery -- The Physical Environment -- Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- The Sundarbans -- Narrative Structure -- Space-Time Compression and Nonhuman Actants -- Project Tiger and the Morichjhãpi Massacre -- Indigenous Peoples and Conservation Priorities -- Catastrophe and Environmental Trauma -- Conclusion -- Patricia Grace's Potiki -- Synopsis and Literature Review -- The Colonization of New Zealand: Historical and Environmental Context -- Stories, Perspectives, and Now-Time -- Racism and Colonial Capital -- Land and Resistance -- Land, Community, Identity -- Ecological Degradation -- Floor, Fire, and Explosion -- Recovery, Cyclicality, and the Everyday -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
505	8		_aIndex.
520			_aClimate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aClimatic changes in literature.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aPoray-Wybranowska, Justyna _tClimate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel _dOxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2020 _z9780367528966
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aRoutledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6423988 _zClick to View
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