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Bartha-Mitchell Kathrin |
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Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature : : Unsettling the Anthropocene / / Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell |
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[s.l.] : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2024 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media |
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Nature / Ecology |
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature |
Fiction / Literary |
Fiction |
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<P>This book presents an innovative and imaginative&nbsp;reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis.</P><P>The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of 'cosmos'-the order of the world-to foreground ideas of a good&nbsp;order and chaos, reciprocity and more-than-human agency, this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia, focusing on notions of colonisation, farming, mining, bioethics, technology, environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers 'cosmological readings' of a diverse range of authors-Indigenous and non-Indigenous-as a challenge to the Anthropocene's decline-narrative. As a result, it reactivates 'cosmos' as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts&nbsp;can help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the planet, and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era.</P><P>This book will be |
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of particular interest to scholars and students of Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, and postcolonial, transcultural&nbsp;and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic and Pacific area studies.</P> |
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