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Ecospectrality: Haunting and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Anglophone Novels by Dr Laura A. White (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)

Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels. Analysing novels from across the world-including Australia, Nigeria, South Africa, India, and Jamaica, this book explores how these ghosts can help readers to perceive difficult-to-visualise environmental threats and access marginalised environmental knowledge. Instead of prompting fear, these hauntings foster understanding across species and generations to enable inclusive formulations of environmental justice. Drawing on the latest work in postcolonial ecocriticism, hauntology, and environmental philosophy and such literary texts as GraceLand, No Telephone to Heaven, The Rock Alphabet, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Ecospectrality is an essential read for anyone working in the environmental humanities today.

About Dr Laura A. White (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)

Laura A. White is Associate Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Holding Open the Door of Haunting Part 1: Materializing Environmental Threats 1. Urban Hauntings: On Ghosts and Garbage in GraceLand 2. Spectral Toxicity in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven Part 2: Materializing Environmental Knowledges 3. Haunted Histories, Animate Futures: Recovering Noongar Knowledge through Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance 4. Mapping Modes of Inhabitance: Haunting, Homing, and the Cartographic Imagination in Henrietta Rose-Innes's The Rock Alphabet 5. Life in the Graveyard: Architectures of Survival and Extinction in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Conclusion: Plotting Just Futures in the Company of Ghosts Notes Bibliography

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NLS9781350243248
9781350243248
1350243248
Ecospectrality: Haunting and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Anglophone Novels by Dr Laura A. White (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2021-11-18
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