Wilderness into Civilized Shapes Reading the Postcolonial Environment
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LAURA WRIGHT is the founder of the field of vegan studies. She is professor of English at Western Carolina University and the author of The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror (Georgia). Most recently, she edited The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies. She lives in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
<p>Wright’s deeply provocative and richly nuanced Wilderness into Civilized Shapes represents the current state of play in contemporary postcolonial ecocriticism. . . . Wright provides much needed tools to explore the diversity and urgency of these cultural arrangements with the natural world. This is the sort of book that, for postcolonial scholars, represents the best in the field, while, for those in adjoining disciplines, offering a rewarding invitation to explore an allied field.</p>
- Deane Curtin, author of <i>Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World</i>
<p>Laura Wright effectively brings together postcolonial and ecocritical readings strategies, even as she explores a wide range of postcolonial texts dealing with environmental issues. Her insightful close readings, elegant prose, and effective organization all contribute to making this a groundbreaking study in the emerging field of green postcolonialism.</p>
- Byron Caminero-Santangelo, author of <i>Joseph Conrad: Reading Postcolonial Intertextuality</i>
<p>Laura Wright offers us wonderful new ways of synthesizing the burgeoning but hitherto distinct fields of postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, and animal studies. Wright deftly negotiates this new turf, analyzing the main conceptual innovations and demonstrating, through smart readings, just what a new environmental-postcolonial-animal studies approach to literature can deliver.</p>
- Rob Nixon, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin
<p><i>Wilderness into Civilized Shapes</i> offers elegant readings of a diverse range of texts as the bedrock from which it is able to articulate significant complications and paradigm shifts to the field of ecocritical inquiry. Wright’s conclusion. . .establishes just what is at stake politically and culturally in postcolonial ecocritical efforts. This is a fitting open-end to an excellent, expansive example of what can be accomplished in the field.</p>
- Chris Campbell,, <i>Safundi</i>
<p>[T]his book represents a valuable contribution to the emerging field of postcolonial environmental criticism.</p>
- Sharae Deckard, <i>Green Letters</i>
<p>[Laura Wright] invites complex understandings of the relationship between textual representation of voice and subaltern subjectivity. . . .[Her] refusal to accept singular perspectives, both theoretical and analytic, reveals a desire to venerate the interconnectedness of peoples, species, and ecosystems.</p>
- Madison P. Jones, <i>ISLE</i>
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LAURA WRIGHT is the founder of the field of vegan studies. She is professor of English at Western Carolina University and the author of The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror (Georgia). Most recently, she edited The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies. She lives in Cullowhee, North Carolina.