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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pamila Gupta , Sarah Nuttall , Esther Peeren , Hanneke StuitPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2024 Weight: 0.596kg ISBN: 9783031242427ISBN 10: 3031242424 Pages: 341 Publication Date: 10 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Hinterlands.- PART I Materialities: Extraction, Logistics.- Chapter 2. Belly of the World: Toxicity, Innocence, and Indigestibility in Plastic China.- Chapter 3. Cultivating Hinterland: What Lies Behind Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield?.- Chapter 4. Dividing, Connecting, and Complicating the Hinterland: The Lower Orange River/ !Garib.- Chapter 5. The Coast Bouleverses at Kolkata.- Chapter 6. Reclaiming the (Hinter)land: Lake Texcoco and the Airport That Never Was.- Chapter 7. Hinterlands of Extraction, Climate Change, and South African Energy Companies.- PART II Affectivities: Abandonment and Dreaming.- Chapter 8.“Washed with Sun”: Landscaping South Africa’s Hinterlands.-Chapter 9. Swamp Things: The Wetland Roots of American Authoritarianism.- Chapter 10. Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands.- Chapter 11. An Arc Beyond Stasis: Activism in the Hinterland-facing Fictions of Alex La Guma and Zoë Wicomb.- Chapter 12. “Reservoirs of the Subconscious of a People”: The Local, National, and Global Resonances of a Lost Hinterland.- Chapter 13. Biophilia in the Hinterland: Symbiotic Affects in Robinson in Ruins.- PART III Ecologies: Care, Transformation.- Chapter 14. The Hinterland at Sea.- Chapter 15. Wet and Dry Hinterlands: Pluviality and Drought in J. M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K.-Chapter 16. The Animal Hinterland in Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s My Heavenly Favorite.- Chapter 17. Compound Focalization in the Literary Hinterlands.- Chapter 18. Behind Johannesburg: Plants and Possible Futures in an Industrialized Hinterland.- Chapter 19. Hinterland, Underground.ReviewsAuthor InformationPamila Gupta is Research Professor affiliated with the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Sarah Nuttall is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and Director of WISER at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Esther Peeren is Professor of Cultural Analysis and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Hanneke Stuit is Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and senior researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |