Details

Description

1 online resource.

Series

Routledge environmental literature, culture and media

Routledge environmental literature, culture and media.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Note

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Local Note

Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access

Subject

Australian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.

Human ecology in literature.

Human ecology and the humanities.

Cosmology in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Genre/Form

Literary criticism.

Other Form:

Print version: Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin. Cosmological readings of contemporary Australian literature Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024 9781032319629 (DLC) 2023033696

ISBN

9781003312154 (ebook)

1003312152

9781032319629 (hardback)

9781032319643 (paperback)