Packing Death in Australian Literature

<p><em>Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sides</em>addresses Australian Literature from ecocritical animal studies plant<br>studies indigenous studies and posthumanist critical perspectives. The<br>book’s main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental<br>vegetal and animal rights issues past and present and to<br>do that from within the discipline of literary studies. Literary studies in<br>Australia continue to reflect disinterest or not enough interest in critical<br>engagements with the subjects of Australia’s oldest extant environments<br>and other beings beside humans. Packing Death in Australian Literature:<br>Ecocides and Eco-Sides foregrounds the vegetal and nonhuman<br>animal populations and contours of Australian Literature. Critical studies<br>relied on in Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and<br>Eco-Sides include books by CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller Simon C.<br>Estok Bill Gammage Timothy Morton Bruce Pascoe Val Plumwood<br>Kate Rigby John Ryan Wendy Wheeler and Cary Wolfe. The selected<br>literary texts include work by Merlinda Bobis Eric Yoshiaki Dando<br>Nugi Garimara Francesca Rendle-Short Patrick White and Evie Wyld.</p>