Colonialism, Culture, Whales
The Cetacean Quartet
Author(s)
Huggan, Graham
Language
EnglishAbstract
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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.
Keywords
Literary Studies; African, Asian and Postcolonial Literatures (Lit Studies); Literature and the Environment (Lit Studies); Animals and Society (Anth); MonographISBN
9781350010901, 9781350150850Publisher
Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher website
http://www.bloomsbury.com/academicPublication date and place
London, 2018Imprint
Bloomsbury AcademicSeries
Environmental Cultures,Classification
Animals and society
Literary theory