Huggan, Graham, 1958-

Postcolonial ecocriticism : literature, animals, environment / Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. - 245 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.

Pt. I. Postcolonialism and the environment -- 1. Development -- 2. Entitlement -- Pt. II. Zoocriticism and the postcolonial -- 1. Ivory and elephants -- 2. Christianity, cannibalism and carnivory -- 3. Agency, sex and emotion -- Postscript: After nature.

This work examines relationships between humans, animals, and the environment. Divided into two sections that consider the postcolonial from environmental and zoocritical perspectives, the book looks at narratives of development in postcolonial writing, entitlement and belonging in pastoral, and much more.

9780415344586 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415344581 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009021329


Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Ecocriticism.
Human ecology in literature.
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.

PR9084 / .H84 2010

820.9 HUG-G