{"product_id":"wilderness-into-civilized-shapes-reading-the-postcolonial-environment-9780820335681","title":"Wilderness Into Civilized Shapes: Reading the Postcolonial Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLaura 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Redness \u003c\/i\u003e(South Africa) and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's \u003ci\u003ePetals of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e (South Africa), Yann Martel's \u003ci\u003eLife of Pi\u003c\/i\u003e (India and Canada), and Joy Williams's \u003ci\u003eThe Quick and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e (United States) to explore the use of animals as metaphors for subjugated groups of individuals. The third chapter deals with India's water crisis via Arundhati Roy's activism and her novel, \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e. Finally, Wright looks at three novels--Flora Nwapa's \u003ci\u003eEfuru\u003c\/i\u003e (Nigeria), Keri Hulme's \u003ci\u003eThe Bone People\u003c\/i\u003e (New Zealand), and Sindiwe Magona's \u003ci\u003eMother to Mother\u003c\/i\u003e (South Africa)--that depict women's relationships to the land from which they have been dispossessed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003eWilderness into Civilized Shapes\u003c\/i\u003e, Wright rearticulates questions about the role of the writer of fiction as environmental activist and spokesperson, the connections between animal ethics and environmental responsibility, and the potential perpetuation of a neocolonial framework founded on western commodification and resource-based imperialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLAURA WRIGHT is the founder of the field of vegan studies. She is professor of English at Western Carolina University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia). Most recently, she edited \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Cullowhee, North Carolina.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328908955922,"sku":"9780820335681","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a548b992-d4a2-471b-8e9a-9e2cf85eb742.jpg?v=1727754485","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wilderness-into-civilized-shapes-reading-the-postcolonial-environment-9780820335681","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}