WILDERNESS INTO CIVILIZED SHAPES: READING THE POSTCOLONIAL ENVIRONMENT
Book ID/图书代码： 13565014B70955
English Summary/英文概要： This study examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. Wright creates a provocative discourse in which the fields of postcolonial theory and ecocriticism are brought together.
Laura Wright explores the changes brought by colonialism and globalization as depicted in an array of international works of fiction in four thematically arranged chapters. She looks first at two traditional oral histories retold in modern novels, Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness (South Africa) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood (Kenya), that deal with the potentially devastating effects of development, particularly through deforestation and the replacement of native flora with European varieties. Wright then uses J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (South Africa), Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (India and Canada), and Joy Williams’s The Quick and the Dead (United States) to explore the use of animals as metaphors for subjugated groups of individuals. The third chapter deals with India’s water crisis via Arundhati Roy’s activism and her novel, The God of Small Things. Finally, Wright looks at three novels—Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (Nigeria), Keri Hulme’s The Bone People (New Zealand), and Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother (South Africa)—that depict women’s relationships to the land from which they have been dispossessed.
Throughout Wilderness into Civilized Shapes, Wright rearticulates questions about the role of the writer of fiction as environmental activist and spokesperson, the connections between animal ethics and environmental responsibility, and the potential perpetuation of a neocolonial framework founded on western commodification and resource-based imperialism.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本研究旨在探讨小说中如何呈现后殖民地与环境问题。Wright这个颇有挑衅意味的话题将后殖民理论和生态批评这两个领域汇聚在了一起。
在本书按主题排列的四个章节中，Laura Wright通过分析一系列国际性的小说，探讨了殖民主义和全球化带来的变化。她首先探索了现代小说中两段口述的历史，分别来自Zakes Mda的《The Heart of Redness》（南非）和Ngugi wa Thiong’o的《Petals of Blood》（肯尼亚）。两书都有关开发带来的潜在的毁灭效果，尤其是森林砍伐以及原生植被被欧洲品种替代所造成的影响。随后，Wright通过J. M. Coetzee的《Disgrace》（南非）、Yann Martel的《Life of Pi》（印度和加拿大）以及Joy William的《The Quick and the Dead》（美国）来探索使用动物来隐喻人类中的征服者群体。在第三章中，Wright通过Arundhati Roy的激进论调以及她的小说《The God of Small Things》探讨印度水资源危机。最后，Wright着眼于三部小说：Flora Nwapa的《Efuru》（尼日利亚）、Keri Hulme的《The Bone People》（新西兰）以及Sindiwe Magona的《Mother to Mother》（南非），来审视妇女和从她们手中被剥夺的土地的关系。
在本书中，Wright再次提出了小说作者作为环保活动家和环境代言人的角色，探讨了动物伦理和环境责任之间的联系，以及建立在西方的商品化和以资源为基础的帝国主义框架之下的新殖民主义是否可能永存。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：Wright的这本书深刻、丰富、细致，展现了当代后殖民生态批评领域的现状……Wright给我们提供了我们急需的工具，用来探索自然界经过这些文化安排之后的多样性和紧迫性。这样的书，对于后殖民学者而言，是这个领域内最好的作品了，而对于那些交叉学科的学者，本书也是一个邀请，请他们来探索这片同盟军的土地。《Deane Curtin，著有Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World一书》
"Wright’s deeply provocative and richly nuanced Wilderness into Civilized Shapes represents the current state of play in contemporary postcolonial ecocriticism. . . . Wright provides much needed tools to explore the diversity and urgency of these cultural arrangements with the natural world. This is the sort of book that, for postcolonial scholars, represents the best in the field, while, for those in adjoining disciplines, offering a rewarding invitation to explore an allied field."--Deane Curtin, author of "Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World"
About the Author/作者介绍： Laura Wright是西卡罗莱纳大学助理教授、英语专业研究生项目负责人。她曾著有《“Out of All the Camps”: J. M. Coetzee’s Narratives of Displacement》。
Laura Wright is an assistant professor and director of graduate studies in English at Western Carolina University. She is the author of Writing “Out of All the Camps”: J. M. Coetzee’s Narratives of Displacement.
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