Packing Death in Australian Literature

Ecocides and Eco-Sides
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-56567-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ralph, Iris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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"

Über Autor(innen)

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.