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From classical texts to contemporary crisis literature, these essays read landscapes as living presences shaped by ecology, empire and epistemology.
The ecofeminist notion is that ‘women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination’ (Estévez-Saá & Lorenzo-Modia, 2018). In Anthony and Cleopatra, that model of ‘domination’ is multifaceted; imperial, patriarchal, and environmental. Yet, contrary to expectations, Cleopatra is not conquered. Where a sole postcolonial reading may be reductive, an ecofeminist reading analyses the environmental motifs to explain the power of her agency, as a woman, sovereign ruler and emblem of nature.
A close reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Ceremony' through the lens of ecopolitics to examine the ecological impacts of warfare. This reading also considers indigenous ecological epistemology concerning the human's place in the ecosystem, enriching how we understand the consequences of war.
Postcolonial Gothic. House of Hunger by Dambduzo Marechera.
One can understand the postcolonial world’s revival of the Gothic genre as societies emerge from the termination of empire; broken, bitter, unrecompensed, and while aware of their current condition, eager to identify the cause. These are feelings that the Gothic can relate to and questions that the Gothic can answer. Read more...
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