Packing Death in Australian Literature
學年 107
學期 1
出版(發表)日期 2019-01-01
作品名稱 Packing Death in Australian Literature
作品名稱(其他語言) 澳洲文學中的"包裝死亡"
著者 IRIS RALPH
單位
出版者
著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 Kritika Kultura 33/34, p.618-640
摘要 In this article, the author identifies critical connections between the transformation of food in the last two hundred thirty years and arguments by animal studies, indigenous studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and environmental history scholars. She does that through a reading of two works of Australian literature: Merlinda Bobis's cli-fi novel Locust Girl and Evie Wyld's post-pastoral fiction All the Birds Singing. Bobis's novel raises questions about the given transformation as it directly relates to the birth of the commercial kangaroo-meat industry, depletion of arable land as a direct consequence of the overuse of it for introduced species of animals reductively called livestock, and obliteration of extensive grain belts in Australia. Wyld's novel addresses the given transformation in an implicit critique of Australia's sheep industry and, by implication, Australia's cattle industry. Both constitute Australian pastoral, which has profoundly transformed food in Australia and eradicated interspecies balances thousands of years old. The novels represent the notice, as limited as that is, in contemporary Australian literature of the radical transformation of food since the late eighteenth century. Illustrating her argument by referring to the two novels, the author argues that literary food studies must reflect greater engagement with ongoing interspecies abuses that define food production. Difficult as those injustices are to confront, they point to the gross moral and material failings in the transformation of food since the late eighteenth century.
關鍵字 climate change;dark pastoral;ecological animalism; grain;ontological veganism
語言 en
ISSN 1656-152X
期刊性質 國外
收錄於 A&HCI
產學合作
通訊作者 IRIS RALPH
審稿制度
國別 PHL
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出版型式 ,電子版
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SDGS 消除貧窮,減少不平等,永續城市與社區,負責任的消費與生產,氣候行動,水下生命,陸域生命,和平正義與有力的制度,夥伴關係,消除飢餓,良好健康和福祉,優質教育,性別平等,潔淨水與衛生,可負擔的潔淨能源,尊嚴就業與經濟發展,產業創新與基礎設施