Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature

This book presents an innovative and imaginative 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...

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প্রধান লেখক: Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin
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প্রকাশিত: Taylor & Francis 2023
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description This book presents an innovative and imaginative 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 a good order and chaos, 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 can help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the planet, 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, transcultural and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic and Pacific area studies.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1313952025-03-28T04:29:40Z Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin Anthropocene;Australia;Australian literature;Ecocriticism;Environmental humanities;Environmental justice;Environmental literature;Indigenous studies;Postcolonialism This book presents an innovative and imaginative 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 a good order and chaos, 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 can help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the planet, 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, transcultural and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic and Pacific area studies. 2023-12-06T04:40:36Z 2023-12-06T04:40:36Z 2023-12-05T10:42:52Z 2024 book OCN: 1410114140 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85778 9781032319629 9781003312154 9781032319643 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131395 eng Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85778/1/9781003815884.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85778/1/9781003815884.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85778/1/9781003815884.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85778/1/9781003815884.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85778/1/9781003815884.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003312154 10.4324/9781003312154 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 9781032319629 9781003312154 9781032319643 DFG - German Research Foundation Routledge 213 open access
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