1st Edition
Packing Death in Australian Literature Ecocides and Eco-Sides
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Australian Ecocriticism and Animal Studies
Posthumanism I
Posthumanism II
Chapter Summaries
CHAPTER TWO: GENOCIDE AND ECOCIDE
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Walkabout
CHAPTER THREE: (POST-)PASTORAL
Bite Your Tongue
Philomela and Theseus, aka Animal Advocates and the Meat Industry
Cow
All the Birds, Singing
Post-Pastoral, the Black Sheep of Pastoral
Oink, Oink, Oink
Transgenic Matter on a Porcine Platter
CHAPTER FOUR: VEGE-MIGHT
Locust Girl
Australia after 1788: the new terra nullius
CHAPTER FIVE: LANGUAGE, TRANSLATION, AND COMMUNICATION
Biosemiotics and Ecocriticism
Translation Studies: Tips for Translating the Nonhuman Other
Wish
Tracks
Listening
CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION
Ecophobia
Ecocriticism and Object-Oriented-Ontology
Riders in the Chariot
Final remarks: "Openness from Closure"
Biography
Iris Ralph holds a B.Sc. (Pharmacology), Monash University; B.A. (English), San Francisco State University; M.A. (English) and Ph.D. (English), The University of Texas at Austin; and Graduate Diploma in TESOL & Literacy, Victoria University. Dr. Ralph currently teaches in the English Department of Tamkang University. She joined the faculty in 2009 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. Dr. Ralph has published many journal articles and book chapters that focus on ecocritical and environmental concerns.
