Title Cosmological readings of contemporary Australian literature : unsettling the anthropocene / Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge environmental literature, culture and media Summary "This book presents a detailed and innovative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of 'cosmos' - the order of the world - to foreground ideas of order, reciprocity, and more-than-human agency, this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia, focusing on notions of colonisation, farming, mining, bioethics, technology, environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers 'cosmological readings' of a diverse range of authors-Indigenous and non-Indigenous-as a challenge to the Anthropocene's decline narrative. As a result, it reactivates 'cosmos' as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts have the potential to help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the world, and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of ecocriticism, environmental humanities, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic, and Pacific area studies"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of New English Literatures and Cultures, Goethe University Frankfurt. Her areas of focus are transcultural Anglophone Literature, Ecocriticism and Intergenerational Justice. She earned her PhD within the joint programme between Goethe and Monash University in Melbourne Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Australian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism Human ecology in literature. Human ecology and the humanities. Cosmology in literature. Ecocriticism. FICTION / Literary NATURE / Ecology Australian literature Cosmology in literature Ecocriticism Human ecology and the humanities Human ecology in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2023033697 ISBN 9781003312154 1003312152 9781003815952 1003815952 100381588X 9781003815884

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