Ecospectrality
Subtitle: haunting and environmental justice in contemporary anglophone novels
By: Laura A. White
Edition: First edition.
Series: Environmental Cultures; Environmental Cultures Ser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: London [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781350091597; 9781350091573
Subjects: Ghosts in literature; History and criticism; Environmentalism in literature; Supernatural in literature; Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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