Series editors: Serenella Iovino, Kate Rigby, and John Tallmadge. Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index.
Contents:
Prologue -- Introduction. The Trouble with Ecological Homecoming -- Part 1. 1. Martin Heidegger and the Coloniality of Nature -- 2. Willa Cather and the Home(l)y Metaphysics of Landscape -- 3. D.H. Lawrence and the Ecological Uncanny -- Excursus I. Ecological Realism -- Part 2. 4. (Un)settling the Southern African Farm/world -- 5. Allegory, Realism, and Uncanny Ecology on Olive Schreiner's African Farm -- 6. Doris Lessing's Ecological Realism -- Excursus II. Exo-Phenomenology.
Summary:
"Drawing broadly on environmental philosophy, literary theory, settler colonial studies, decolonial theory, and speculative realism, Eggan quarries uncanny depictions of the natural world to unsettle not just the concept of nature but the coloniality of Nature. Unsettling Nature at once critiques Heidegger's home(l)y phenomenology and brings it forward through chapters on Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Schreiner, and Doris Lessing. The book concludes with a speculative proposal to transform eco-phenomenology into "exo-phenomenology," which emphasizes ways of being and perceiving that bring us out of ourselves into contact with the Other, and into an encounter with the self as Othered"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
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