Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032319629 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell

Opis

This book presents a detailed and innovative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. It will be of interest to scholars and students of ecocriticism, environmental humanities, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies.

Recenzje

"Kathrin Bartha’s Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature is an important new work of Australian ecocriticism. Drawing on recent work on literature and the Anthropocene, Bartha’s book offers a model for reading Australian literature cosmologically. Bartha’s readings emphasise interconnections between beings, agencies and systems that work against the traditional humanistic focus of western prose fiction and offer a critical new dimension to Australian literary studies."

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia

"An innovative intervention in the environmental humanities, this thought-provoking study of contemporary Australian literature makes a powerful case for the generative concept of cosmos and, more broadly, for the importance of literary studies within the wider field." 

Diletta De Cristofaro, Assistant Professor, Northumbria University, UK

Spis treści

Introduction: Literary Cosmology in the Anthropocene  Part 1: CONTEXT / THEORY: From Chaos to Cosmos to Anthropocene?  1. Cosmos within and beyond the Environmental Humanities  2. Cosmos Today: Modern, Transcultural, (Dis)enchanted  Part 2: COLONISATION / EXPLOITATION: Reimagining Agriculture and Extraction  3. Remembering the Language of Colonial Agriculture: Carrie Tiffany’s Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living  4. Resisting Mining and Regenerating Country through the Wiradjuri Language: Tara June Winch’s The Yield  Part 3: BIOETHICS / TECHNOLOGY: Revising Human Mastery Narratives  5. Testing the Limits of Apocalyptic Climate Fiction: Briohny Doyle’s The Island Will Sink  6. Reconsidering Evolution and Queering Environmentalism: Ellen van Neerven’s “Water”  Part 4: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE / CUSTODIANSHIP: Towards Sovereign Cosmopolitics  7. Remembering the Opposite of Oppression: Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains  8. Aquatious Mobilisation of Indigenous Sovereignty: Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip  Conclusion

O autorze

Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of New English Literatures and Cultures, Goethe University Frankfurt. Her areas of focus are transcultural Anglophone Literature, Ecocriticism and Intergenerational Justice. She earned her PhD within the joint programme between Goethe and Monash University in Melbourne.