LEADER 02948nam 22004333a 450 001 9910832982003321 005 20250203232615.0 010 $a9781003815884 010 $a100381588X 035 $a(CKB)5720000000263739 035 $a(ScCtBLL)e18790ee-4b26-4d04-9946-ba5d5d133fac 035 $a(EXLCZ)995720000000263739 100 $a20250203i20242023 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aCosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature : $eUnsettling the Anthropocene /$fKathrin Bartha-Mitchell 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cTaylor and Francis,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (213 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media 330 $a<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 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> 410 $aRoutledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media 606 $aNature / Ecology$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature$2bisacsh 606 $aFiction / Literary$2bisacsh 608 $aFiction.$2lcgft 610 00$aAnthropocene 615 7$aNature / Ecology 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature 615 7$aFiction / Literary 700 $aBartha-Mitchell$b Kathrin$01787036 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910832982003321 996 $aCosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature$94319652 997 $aUNINA