
Packing Death in Australian Literature
Ecocides and Eco-Sides
Iris Ralph(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 17. November 2020
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-367-56567-1 (ISBN)
Description
Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sidesaddresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, plant
studies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. The
book's main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental,
vegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and to
do that from within the discipline of literary studies. Literary studies in
Australia continue to reflect disinterest or not enough interest in critical
engagements with the subjects of Australia's oldest extant environments
and other beings beside humans. Packing Death in Australian Literature:
Ecocides and Eco-Sides foregrounds the vegetal and nonhuman
animal populations and contours of Australian Literature. Critical studies
relied on in Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and
Eco-Sides include books by CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller, Simon C.
Estok, Bill Gammage, Timothy Morton, Bruce Pascoe, Val Plumwood,
Kate Rigby, John Ryan, Wendy Wheeler, and Cary Wolfe. The selected
literary texts include work by Merlinda Bobis, Eric Yoshiaki Dando,
Nugi Garimara, Francesca Rendle-Short, Patrick White, and Evie Wyld.
studies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. The
book's main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental,
vegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and to
do that from within the discipline of literary studies. Literary studies in
Australia continue to reflect disinterest or not enough interest in critical
engagements with the subjects of Australia's oldest extant environments
and other beings beside humans. Packing Death in Australian Literature:
Ecocides and Eco-Sides foregrounds the vegetal and nonhuman
animal populations and contours of Australian Literature. Critical studies
relied on in Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and
Eco-Sides include books by CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller, Simon C.
Estok, Bill Gammage, Timothy Morton, Bruce Pascoe, Val Plumwood,
Kate Rigby, John Ryan, Wendy Wheeler, and Cary Wolfe. The selected
literary texts include work by Merlinda Bobis, Eric Yoshiaki Dando,
Nugi Garimara, Francesca Rendle-Short, Patrick White, and Evie Wyld.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-56567-1 (9780367565671)
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Iris Ralph holds a B.Sc. (Pharmacology), Monash University; B.A. (English), San Francisco State University; M.A. (English) and Ph.D. (English), The University of Texas at Austin; and Graduate Diploma in TESOL & Literacy, Victoria University. Dr. Ralph currently teaches in the English Department of Tamkang University. She joined the faculty in 2009 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. Dr. Ralph has published many journal articles and book chapters that focus on ecocritical and environmental concerns.
Content
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Australian Ecocriticism and Animal Studies
Posthumanism I
Posthumanism II
Chapter Summaries
CHAPTER TWO: GENOCIDE AND ECOCIDE
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Walkabout
CHAPTER THREE: (POST-)PASTORAL
Bite Your Tongue
Philomela and Theseus, aka Animal Advocates and the Meat Industry
Cow
All the Birds, Singing
Post-Pastoral, the Black Sheep of Pastoral
Oink, Oink, Oink
Transgenic Matter on a Porcine Platter
CHAPTER FOUR: VEGE-MIGHT
Locust Girl
Australia after 1788: the new terra nullius
CHAPTER FIVE: LANGUAGE, TRANSLATION, AND COMMUNICATION
Biosemiotics and Ecocriticism
Translation Studies: Tips for Translating the Nonhuman Other
Wish
Tracks
Listening
CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION
Ecophobia
Ecocriticism and Object-Oriented-Ontology
Riders in the Chariot
Final remarks: "Openness from Closure"
Australian Ecocriticism and Animal Studies
Posthumanism I
Posthumanism II
Chapter Summaries
CHAPTER TWO: GENOCIDE AND ECOCIDE
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Walkabout
CHAPTER THREE: (POST-)PASTORAL
Bite Your Tongue
Philomela and Theseus, aka Animal Advocates and the Meat Industry
Cow
All the Birds, Singing
Post-Pastoral, the Black Sheep of Pastoral
Oink, Oink, Oink
Transgenic Matter on a Porcine Platter
CHAPTER FOUR: VEGE-MIGHT
Locust Girl
Australia after 1788: the new terra nullius
CHAPTER FIVE: LANGUAGE, TRANSLATION, AND COMMUNICATION
Biosemiotics and Ecocriticism
Translation Studies: Tips for Translating the Nonhuman Other
Wish
Tracks
Listening
CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION
Ecophobia
Ecocriticism and Object-Oriented-Ontology
Riders in the Chariot
Final remarks: "Openness from Closure"