Wilderness into Civilized Shapes
This study examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. Wright creates a provocative discourse in which the fields of postcolonial theory and ecocriticism are brought together. Laura Wright explores the changes brought by colonialism and globalization as depicted in an array of international works of fiction in four thematically arranged chapters. She looks first at two traditional oral histories retold in modern novels, Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (South Africa) and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood (Kenya), that deal with the potentially devastating effects of development, particularly th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8203-3396-0
- EAN: 9780820333960
- Produktnummer: 6573331
- Verlag: University of Georgia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 467 g
- Gewicht: 467
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Laura Wright is an assistant professor and director of graduate studies in English at Western Carolina University. She is the author of Writing Out of All the Camps J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement.
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