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Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation./
Author:	Goel, Gayathri.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	177 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-03A.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30574551
ISBN:	9798380340410

Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation.
Goel, Gayathri.

Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 177 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2023.

Resource extraction has devastating impact on human and more-than-human environments. My dissertation, Entanglements: Place-Based Literatures for Ecological Liberation, examines the effects of extractivist violence on both humans and nonhumans through literary texts set in South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. The six texts that I analyze represent specific forms of environmental devastation and land loss in specific places. More crucially, these texts show that environmental issues, even when they are universally recognizable, are rooted in particular places and are entangled in their related cultural, political, and ecological histories. Using a place-based framework, I argue that human and nonhuman animal lives often intersect and the common threat of extractivism produces precarity that cannot be compartmentalized.My dissertation focuses on literatures from the Global South, where the specter of colonialism and its ongoing extractive practices disrupt and permanently alter indigenous ecologies, along with human-nonhuman interdependencies and epistemologies. Each chapter explores traumatic, long-term fractures produced in non-Western communities through violent Eurocentric modes of control and investigates the implications of this fragmentation for both human and nonhuman inhabitants using place-based theories. The first chapter, "Knowing a Place," examines Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide (2004) and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (2000), and analyzes how historical (and ongoing forms of) colonial violence destabilizes both geographical and temporal boundaries of a place with consequences for the dis-placed. The next chapter, "Relating to a Place," analyzes two Caribbean Bildungsromane, Jan Carew's Black Midas (1958) and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven (1987), and traces the effects of alienation caused by colonialism on both a nation and its atomized subjects. The final chapter, "Inhabiting a Place," focuses on narrative techniques, specifically the use of an animal point-of-view, in Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone (1998) and Tania James' The Tusk That Did the Damage (2015), both of which creatively inhabit animals' minds, and explore how nonhuman place-worlds intersect with human ones, resulting in conflict but also in opportunities for cooperation. The texts are paired carefully to substantiate the centrality of place in literary analysis and to explore imaginative ways of envisioning resistance to extractivist violence through radical cooperation across differences in race, gender, and species.

ISBN: 9798380340410Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.
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Anglophone literature

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