Towards A South African Literary Post-Pastoralism

Alternative Environmentalisms and Multispecies Narratives in Selected Post-Apartheid South African Literature
Originalausgabe 2017
ISBN: 978-3-96042-037-8
Verlag: edition assemblage

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 205 mm x 140 mm, Gewicht: 275 g

Reihe: Postcolonial Posthumanism

This book demonstrates how "The House Gun and Get A Life" by Nadine Gordimer, "Disgrace" and "Elizabeth Costello" by J.M. Coetzee, and "The Heart of Redness" and "The Whale Caller" by Zakes Mda, inspire the environmental awareness and contribute to the field of the environmental justice by insisting on the power of nonhuman agents. The book employs insights of “postcolonial-material ecocriticism” to discover a way of reading fictional representations in which all entities reflect on the enmeshment that challenges the binary segregation. The South African fiction is scrutinized as alternative environmentalisms, mirroring a turn to rethink nonhuman positions as a way to subvert anthropocentrism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donsomsakulkij, Weeraya

Über Autor(innen)

Donsomsakulkij, Weeraya
Weeraya Donsomsakulkij is a full-time lecturer at Assumption University of Thailand,
Samut-Prakan. She is author of the book Towards a South African “Post-Pastoralism”:
Alternative Environmentalisms and Multispecies Narratives in Selected
Post-Apartheid South African Literature and has published widely in the realm of
posthumanism and new materialisms.