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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Justyna Poray-WybranowskaPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780367528980ISBN 10: 0367528983 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 01 August 2022 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Reading Catastrophe through Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, and Animal Studies Chapter 2: Catastrophe, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships Part 1: Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss Part 2: Kim Scott’s Benang: From the Heart Chapter 3: Catastrophe and Human-Nonhuman Relationships in Degraded Environments Part 1: Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner than Skin Part 2: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria Chapter 4: Land Justice, Resistance, Recovery Part 1: Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Part 2: Patricia Grace’s Potiki ConclusionReviews""In her first monograph, Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel, Justyna Poray-Wybranowska offers a revised understanding of catastrophe in postcolonial fiction… a timely addition to a recent wealth of publications in the field of postcolonial ecocriticism."" -- Demi Wilton, Loughborough University, UK “Poray-Wybranowska’s Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel is scholarly, with a well-articulated argument supported succinctly by relevant theory… This is an avenue of enquiry of increasing importance that has the potential to connect cross-disciplinarily with studies in social theory, ecocriticism, literatures of climate change, and interdisciplinary studies across the environmental humanities.” --Kate Judith, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Author InformationJustyna Poray-Wybranowska holds a PhD in English and World Literature from York University, with a specialization in environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, disaster studies, and animal studies. The research on which this book is based was jointly funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by York University. Poray-Wybranowska’s research has been published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2020), Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim (2020), Otherness: Essays and Studies (2016), Studies in Canadian Literature (2014), HARTS & Minds (2014), and Just Politics? (2014). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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