Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780367661618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 234 str.

Ben Holgate

Opis

Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse makes a dual intervention in both world literature and ecocriticism by examining magical realism as an international style of writing that has long-standing links with environmental literature.

Spis treści

Introduction: A crisis of imagination

Chapter One:

‘Expanded reality’: Alexis Wright’s revitalisation of Dreamtime narratives

Chapter Two:

Sublime wilderness: Embracing the non-human in Richard Flanagan’s Tasmania

Chapter Three:

‘The oneness is still with us’: Oceanic mythology in Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider

Chapter Four:

‘Heart, spirit, and inclination:’ Reconciliation in Keri Hulme’s The Bone People

Chapter Five:

Mosquitoes and malaria: Counter-science and colonial archives in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome

Chapter Six:

Purity and parody: Mo Yan’s resistance to Western magical realism in pursuit of his own Chinese style

Chapter Seven:

Planetary perspective: Addressing climate change in Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes

Conclusion

O autorze

Ben Holgate is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Previously, he was Associate Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Oxford.