Book/Printed Material Cosmological readings of contemporary Australian literature : unsettling the anthropocene Unsettling the anthropocene

Title

• Cosmological readings of contemporary Australian literature : unsettling the anthropocene

Other Title

• Unsettling the anthropocene

Summary

• "This book presents a detailed and innovative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. 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 order, 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 have the potential to help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the world, and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of ecocriticism, environmental humanities, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic, and Pacific area studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin, author

Created / Published

• London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Contents

• Literary Cosmology in the Anthropocene -- Cosmos Within and Beyond the Environmental Humanities -- Cosmos Today: Modern, Transcultural, (Dis)enchanted -- Remembering the Language of Colonial Agriculture: Carrie Tiffany's Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living -- Resisting Mining and Regenerating Country through the Wiradjuri Language: Tara June Winch's The Yield -- Testing the Limits of Apocalyptic Climate Fiction: Briohny Doyle's The Island Will Sink -- Reconsidering Evolution and Queering Environmentalism: Ellen van Neerven's "Water" -- Remembering the Opposite of Oppression: Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains -- Aquatious Mobilisation of Indigenous Sovereignty: Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip.

Headings

• -  Australian literature--21st century--History and criticism
• -  Human ecology in literature
• -  Human ecology and the humanities
• -  Cosmology in literature
• -  Ecocriticism

Genre

• Literary criticism

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• PR9605.5.H86

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2023033697

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2023033697

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

• epub
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LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2023033697

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