Helen Tiffin, ed., Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire

The splendidly titled Five Emus to the King of Siam represents another welcome addition to the rapidly developing field of postcolonial ecocriticism, even though its combative editor, Helen Tiffin, distances herself from ecocriticism as being too American and not interdisciplinary enough (xxvi). Wh...

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Главный автор: Huggan, Graham
Формат: Article ou chapitre numérique
Язык:Anglais
Опубликовано: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2022
Online-ссылка:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Итог:The splendidly titled Five Emus to the King of Siam represents another welcome addition to the rapidly developing field of postcolonial ecocriticism, even though its combative editor, Helen Tiffin, distances herself from ecocriticism as being too American and not interdisciplinary enough (xxvi). While this view used to have some truth to it, it now seems somehow dated, failing to acknowledge the increasingly global dimensions of the discipline as well as its newfound interdisciplinary energi...