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oapen-20.500.12657-524782022-01-18T13:20:20Z Colonialism, Culture, Whales Huggan, Graham Literary Studies African, Asian and Postcolonial Literatures (Lit Studies) Literature and the Environment (Lit Studies) Animals and Society (Anth) Monograph bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFZ Animals & society bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSA Literary theory 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. 2022-01-18T13:07:57Z 2022-01-18T13:07:57Z 2018 book ONIX_20220118_9781350010901_10 9781350010901 9781350150850 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52478 eng Environmental Cultures application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781350010901.epub Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350010925 10.5040/9781350010925 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350010901 9781350150850 Bloomsbury Academic 152 London open access
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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.
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