Postcolonial ecocriticism : literature, animals, environment /

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This work examines relationships between humans, animals, and the environment. Divided into two sections that consider the postcolonial from environmental and zoocritical perspectives, the book looks at narratives of development in postcolonial writing, entitlement and belonging in pastoral, and muc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huggan, Graham
Other Authors: Tiffin, Helen
Format: Printed Book
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Subjects:
Commonwealth fiction (English)
Ecocriticism.
Human ecology in literature.
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Postcolonialism and the environment
  • 1. Development
  • 2. Entitlement
  • Pt. II. Zoocriticism and the postcolonial
  • 1. Ivory and elephants
  • 2. Christianity, cannibalism and carnivory
  • 3. Agency, sex and emotion
  • Postscript: After nature.

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