2004/09/01 by Graham Huggan · 85 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Anthropocentrism #Art #Criticism #Ecocriticism #Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature #Environmental ethics #Literature #Philosophy #Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies #Postcolonialism (international relations) #Social science #Sociology #South African History and Culture
paper · doi:10.1353/mfs.2004.0067
published in Modern fiction studies 50(3), 701-733 (Johns Hopkins University Press)
openalex publication_date 2004/09/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The essay looks at possible areas of intersection between postcolonial criticism and ecocriticism, two relatively recent critical schools that, despite their obvious differences, share similar concerns with social justice and transformation. Via readings of three recent texts by Arundhati Roy, J. M. Coetzee, and Barbara Gowdy, the essay argues that postcolonial criticism and ecocriticism exist in part as mutual correctives: postcolonial criticism to the culture-blindness of certain strands of ecocriticism, and ecocriticism to the anthropocentric tendencies of postcolonial thought.