Wilderness into Civilized Shapes: Reading the Postcolonial Environment by Wright, Laura

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Hardback. New. Examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. It explores the changes brought by colonialism and globalization as depicted in an array of international works of fiction in four thematically arranged chapters.

New. 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 through deforestation and the replacement of native flora with European varieties. Wright then uses J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (South Africa), Yann Martel's Life of Pi (India and Canada), and Joy Williams's The Quick and the Dead (United States) to explore the use of animals as metaphors for subjugated groups of individuals. The third… Read More

Univ of Georgia Pr, 2010. Hardcover. New. 213 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.