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An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature. From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie.
Robert P. Marzec
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Paperback. This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the 'enclosure movement' has effected not only the ecosystems and the geopolitics of the Twenty-First century, but on how we relate to the earth and conceive of ourselves as human. Num Pages: 207 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the 'enclosure movement' has effected not only the ecosystems and the geopolitics of the Twenty-First century, but on how we relate to the earth and conceive of ourselves as human.
This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the 'enclosure movement' has effected not only the ecosystems and the geopolitics of the Twenty-First century, but on how we relate to the earth and conceive of ourselves as human.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349537068
SKU
V9781349537068
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About Robert P. Marzec
ROBERT MARZEC is Associate Professor of English Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Global Studies, and Contemporary Criticism at the State University of New York at Fredonia, USA.
Reviews for An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature. From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie.
"Marzec convincingly demonstrates that the impact of this history of the enclosure movement on British (and Western) humanity's ontological comportment toward the land and its understanding of inhabitancy was epochal in significance. This book should be considered in the top five most important studies on postcolonialism after Edward Said's Orientalism." - William V. Spanos, Binghamton University "Theoretically ... Read more