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Haunting and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Anglophone Novels
Ecospectrality
Haunting and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Anglophone Novels
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Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels. Analysing novels from across the world-including Australia, Nigeria, South Africa, India, and Jamaica, this book explores how these ghosts can help readers to perceive difficult-to-visualise environmental threats and access marginalised environmental knowledge. Instead of prompting fear, these hauntings foster understanding across species and generations to enable inclusive formulations of environmental justice.
Drawing on the latest work in postcolonial ecocriticism, hauntology, and environmental philosophy and such literary texts as GraceLand, No Telephone to Heaven, The Rock Alphabet, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Ecospectrality is an essential read for anyone working in the environmental humanities today.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Holding Open the Door of Haunting
Part 1: Materializing Environmental Threats
1. Urban Hauntings: On Ghosts and Garbage in GraceLand
2. Spectral Toxicity in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven
Part 2: Materializing Environmental Knowledges
3. Haunted Histories, Animate Futures: Recovering Noongar Knowledge through
Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance
4. Mapping Modes of Inhabitance: Haunting, Homing, and the Cartographic
Imagination in Henrietta Rose-Innes's The Rock Alphabet
5. Life in the Graveyard: Architectures of Survival and Extinction in Arundhati
Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Conclusion: Plotting Just Futures in the Company of Ghosts
Notes
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | 18 Nov 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781350243248 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Environmental Cultures |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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