Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment

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This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and animal studies. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine transverse relations between humans, animals and the environment across a wide range of postcolonial literary texts and also address key issues such as global warming, food security, human over-population in the context of animal extinction, queer ecology, and the connections between postcolonial and disability theory. Considering the postcolonial first from an environmental and then a zoocritical perspective, the book looks at: Narratives of development in postcolonial writing Entitlement, belonging and the pastoral Colonial 'asset stripping' and the Christian mission The politics of eating and the representation of cannibalism Animality and spirituality Sentimentality and anthropomorphism The changing place of humans and animals in a 'posthuman' world. With a new preface written specifically for this edition and an annotated list of suggestions for further reading, Postcolonial Ecocriticism offers a comprehensive and fully up-to-date introduction to a rapidly expanding field. Cover ......Page 1 Half Title ......Page 2 Title Page ......Page 4 Copyright Page ......Page 5 Table of Contents ......Page 6 Preface......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 Racism and speciesism......Page 18 Aesthetics, advocacy, activism......Page 24 Writing wrongs......Page 29 Notes......Page 35 Part I: Postcolonialism and the environment......Page 40 Introduction......Page 42 Abuses of power......Page 50 The tourist and the native......Page 81 Epilogue: Eco-catastrophe, global warming and the crisis of the human......Page 93 Notes......Page 103 Some versions of the postcolonial pastoral......Page 111 Pastoral in black and white......Page 114 South African counter-pastoral......Page 126 Hating nature properly......Page 139 Conclusion......Page 147 Coda: Staging entitlement......Page 149 Notes......Page 159 Part II: Zoocriticism and the postcolonial......Page 162 Introduction......Page 164 Notes......Page 169 Ivory......Page 172 Elephants......Page 178 Notes......Page 191 Origin myths......Page 193 Cannibalism and carnivory......Page 199 Carnivory......Page 206 Notes......Page 214 The lives (and deaths) of tigers......Page 215 The question of non-human agency......Page 220 Animal sex, human emotion?......Page 223 Conclusion......Page 231 Notes......Page 232 Postscript: After nature ......Page 237 Annotated bibliography......Page 251 Works cited......Page 266 Index......Page 290