1st Edition

Packing Death in Australian Literature Ecocides and Eco-Sides

By Iris Ralph Copyright 2021
    174 Pages
    by Routledge

    174 Pages
    by Routledge

    Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sides
    addresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, plant
    studies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. The
    book’s main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental,
    vegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and to
    do that from within the discipline of literary studies. Literary studies in
    Australia continue to reflect disinterest or not enough interest in critical
    engagements with the subjects of Australia’s oldest extant environments
    and other beings beside humans. Packing Death in Australian Literature:
    Ecocides and Eco-Sides foregrounds the vegetal and nonhuman
    animal populations and contours of Australian Literature. Critical studies
    relied on in Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and
    Eco-Sides include books by CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller, Simon C.
    Estok, Bill Gammage, Timothy Morton, Bruce Pascoe, Val Plumwood,
    Kate Rigby, John Ryan, Wendy Wheeler, and Cary Wolfe. The selected
    literary texts include work by Merlinda Bobis, Eric Yoshiaki Dando,
    Nugi Garimara, Francesca Rendle-Short, Patrick White, and Evie Wyld.

    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.