Examining Caryl Phillips’s later fiction (A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow) through the characters’ lived experience of their environment, this article seeks to pave the way toward a mutually enriching dialogue between postcolonial studies and urban ecocriticism. Phillips’s British novels show how Western racist/colonial underpinnings that persist in a postcolonial context are manifest in the phenomenon of spatialisation of race. The latter devises separate spaces of Otherness, imbued with savage connotations, where the undesirable Other is ostracised. The enriching concept of “man-in-environment” is thus reconfigured so that the postcolonial subject’s identity is defined by such bias-constructed dwelling-places. Consequently, the Ot...
Cities are made up of assemblages of incoherent wholes which co-exist together in a seemingly placid...
This work of ecocritical narrative scholarship weaves analysis of Richard Powers’ "The Overstory"—sp...
[EN] The concept of “the ordinary” has become an ever more usual reference in the analysis of certai...
Examining Caryl Phillips’s later fiction (A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow) through the chara...
Examining Caryl Phillips’s later fiction (A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow) through the...
Amitav Ghosh’s novel "Gun Island" (2019) explores the intersection of the nonhuman with ...
This paper analyses the cinematic landscape of The Descendants (Payne, 2011) by engaging with Edward...
The duality of here and there is a recurring motif in Maghrebian exile literature, which revolves ar...
This paper examines posthumanism as a philosophical position equipped to inform ecocriticism and the...
Neste artigo, mostramos como o conceito de ambiente, quando tomado como categoria principal de uma v...
Due to the contemporary socio-environmental crisis, human sciences have sought out other ways to com...
[EN] The factors that define the identity of the landscape are broad, varied and variable, but there...
Texto completo descargado desde TeseoThis thesis looks at the design of the public space of British ...
Realist depictions of bad housing are pervasive in the canon of twentieth-century American literatur...
What would it mean to explore questions of translation and linguistic diversity from within an ecolo...
Cities are made up of assemblages of incoherent wholes which co-exist together in a seemingly placid...
This work of ecocritical narrative scholarship weaves analysis of Richard Powers’ "The Overstory"—sp...
[EN] The concept of “the ordinary” has become an ever more usual reference in the analysis of certai...
Examining Caryl Phillips’s later fiction (A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow) through the chara...
Examining Caryl Phillips’s later fiction (A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow) through the...
Amitav Ghosh’s novel "Gun Island" (2019) explores the intersection of the nonhuman with ...
This paper analyses the cinematic landscape of The Descendants (Payne, 2011) by engaging with Edward...
The duality of here and there is a recurring motif in Maghrebian exile literature, which revolves ar...
This paper examines posthumanism as a philosophical position equipped to inform ecocriticism and the...
Neste artigo, mostramos como o conceito de ambiente, quando tomado como categoria principal de uma v...
Due to the contemporary socio-environmental crisis, human sciences have sought out other ways to com...
[EN] The factors that define the identity of the landscape are broad, varied and variable, but there...
Texto completo descargado desde TeseoThis thesis looks at the design of the public space of British ...
Realist depictions of bad housing are pervasive in the canon of twentieth-century American literatur...
What would it mean to explore questions of translation and linguistic diversity from within an ecolo...
Cities are made up of assemblages of incoherent wholes which co-exist together in a seemingly placid...
This work of ecocritical narrative scholarship weaves analysis of Richard Powers’ "The Overstory"—sp...
[EN] The concept of “the ordinary” has become an ever more usual reference in the analysis of certai...