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> <p>CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION</p><p>Australian Ecocriticism and Animal Studies</p><p>Posthumanism I</p><p>Posthumanism II</p><p>Chapter Summaries</p><p>CHAPTER TWO: GENOCIDE AND ECOCIDE</p><p><i>Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence</i></p><p>Walkabout</p><p>CHAPTER THREE: (POST-)PASTORAL</p><p><i>Bite Your Tongue</i></p><p>Philomela and Theseus, aka Animal Advocates and the Meat Industry</p><p>Cow</p><p><i>All the Birds, Singing</i></p><p>Post-Pastoral, the Black Sheep of Pastoral</p><p>Oink, Oink, Oink</p><p>Transgenic Matter on a Porcine Platter</p><p>CHAPTER FOUR: VEGE-MIGHT</p><p><i>Locust Girl</i></p><p>Australia after 1788: the new <i>terra nullius</i></p><p>CHAPTER FIVE: LANGUAGE, TRANSLATION, AND COMMUNICATION</p><p>Biosemiotics and Ecocriticism</p><p>Translation Studies: Tips for Translating the Nonhuman Other</p><p><i>Wish</i></p><p>Tracks</p><p>Listening</p><p>CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION</p><p>Ecophobia</p><p>Ecocriticism and Object-Oriented-Ontology</p><p><i>Riders in the Chariot</i></p><p>Final remarks: "Openness from Closure" </p>