| Autor: |
Roman Bartosch |
| Jazyk: |
German<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Italian |
| Rok vydání: |
2012 |
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| Zdroj: |
Ecozon@, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 10-19 (2012) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2171-9594 |
| Popis: |
One of the effects of ecocritical scholarship can be seen in the questioning of postmodern attempts of a radical constructivism that understands the world as a discursive phenomenon and that opposes any notion of a ‘reality’ outside those discursive entanglements. In light of environmental crises in particular, to doubt an extradiscursive reality seems inappropriate. However, I will argue in this essay that narratives of catastrophe do follow specific dramatising rhetorics, and I will show how Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People questions and ultimately deconstructs these. By radically questioning the idea of a stable reality and authentic means to narrate it, postcolonial ecocriticism in general, and Animal’s People in particular, engenders a sense of the tension between reality and representational ideology, and it enables a way of experiencing this conflict through the eyes of an ecological posthumanism. |
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