| Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet Contributor(s): Huggan, Graham (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350010898 ISBN-13: 9781350010895 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $133.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Nature | Animals - Mammals - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 599.5 |
| LCCN: 2018002184 |
| Series: Environmental Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.86 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern Western culture. Foraging across the disciplines and moving between ideas and methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, animal studies, and environmental humanities, the book critically examines the colonial histories of whaling, their legacies in contemporary tourism from whale-watching excursions to the performing orcas at SeaWorld, and cultural representations of anxieties about extinction in recent literature, television, and film. Extensively researched and engagingly written, the four essays that comprise The Cetacean Quartet should appeal to scholars in a number of different fields as well as to general readers interested in finding out more about our enduring, guilt-ridden fascination with one of the world's most iconic living creatures, the whale. |
Contributor Bio(s): Huggan, Graham: - Graham Huggan is Professor and Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds, UK. A leading postcolonial critic, he is the author of 13 books, including Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (2010) and Nature's Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age (2013). |