184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at the turn of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the notion of place as a way of interrogating the socio-political and environmental pressures that have been seen as negatively affecting our environments since the advent of modernity, as well as the solutions... Read more
Introduction: From Local to Global and Back Again Chapter 1: Small-Scale Farming and the Ethics of Proximity in Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow Chapter 2: Wilderness and Place in Gary Snyder’s The Practice of the Wild Chapter 3: Industrialisation and Displacement in John Berger’s Into Their Labours Trilogy Chapter 4: Colonisation and Displacement in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance Chapter 5: Slow Violence and Neocolonialism in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water Chapter 6: Universalism and Embodied Knowledge in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Conclusion: Ecocritical Communities
Biography
Lenka Filipova completed her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin.
