'The whale swims in the gulf of comprehension between human and natural history, challenging us at every turn. In this riveting, diverting dissection of that fractured relationship, Graham Huggan teases out apposite cultural, literary and historical resonance to present a gripping new portrait of an animal that continues to defy our understanding even as it inspires our admiration. <i>Colonialism, Culture, Whales </i>is a highly recommended voyage into the troubled, beautiful world shared by the human and the whale.

Philip Hoare, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Southampton, UK

Located at the nexus of ecocriticism, animal studies, postcolonial theory, and affect theory, Graham Huggan’s <i>Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet</i> is a valuable recent study.

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern Western culture. Foraging across the disciplines and moving between ideas and methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, animal studies, and environmental humanities, the book critically examines the colonial histories of whaling, their legacies in contemporary tourism from whale-watching excursions to the performing orcas at SeaWorld, and cultural representations of anxieties about extinction in recent literature, television, and film. Extensively researched and engagingly written, the four essays that comprise The Cetacean Quartet should appeal to scholars in a number of different fields as well as to general readers interested in finding out more about our enduring, guilt-ridden fascination with one of the world's most iconic living creatures, the whale.
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AcknowledgmentsPreface1. Last Whales: Eschatology, Extinction and the Cetacean Imaginary in Winton and Pash2. Sperm Count: The Scoresbys and the North3. Killers: Orcas and Their Followers4. Kind of Blue; or, The Infinite Melancholy of the WhalePostscriptIndex
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'The whale swims in the gulf of comprehension between human and natural history, challenging us at every turn. In this riveting, diverting dissection of that fractured relationship, Graham Huggan teases out apposite cultural, literary and historical resonance to present a gripping new portrait of an animal that continues to defy our understanding even as it inspires our admiration. Colonialism, Culture, Whales is a highly recommended voyage into the troubled, beautiful world shared by the human and the whale.
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An innovative, interdisciplinary study of colonial attitudes to whales in modern culture from literature to the tourism, written by one of the leading postcolonial critics writing today.
Written by an internationally-renowned scholar and the leading exponent of postcolonial ecocriticism
Bloomsbury’s Environmental Cultures series makes available to students and scholars at all levels the latest cutting-edge research on the diverse ways in which culture has responded to the age of environmental crisis. Publishing ambitious and innovative literary ecocriticism that crosses disciplines, national boundaries and media, books in the series explore and test the challenges of ecocriticism to conventional forms of cultural study.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350150850
Publisert
2020-02-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
222 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
152

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Om bidragsyterne

Graham Huggan is Professor of English at the University of Leeds, UK. A leading postcolonial critic and environmental scholar, he is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies (2013) and author of 14 books, including (co-written with Helen Tiffin) Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (2010, 2nd ed. 2015) and Nature's Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age (2013).