Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique

ISBN-13: 9781138479777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str.

Gaia Giuliani

Opis

Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration and terrorism through a postcolonial inquiry into modern conceptions of monstrosity and catastrophe.

Spis treści

Introduction  Section 1: The past devours the present: Fears of invasion and the repressed memory of colonial violence  Section 2: Alien-ing the migrant. On Anthropocenic geographies of monstrosity  Section 3: Lifting the veil on the monstrous Anthropocene: a postcolonial analysis  Conclusions

O autorze

Dr. Gaia Giuliani is Researcher at Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, Portugal.