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|aMarzec, Robert P.
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|aAn ecological and postcolonial study of literature|h[electronic resource] :|bfrom Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie /|cby Robert P. Marzec.
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|a1st ed.
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|aNew York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2007.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2009.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Mar. 3, 2009).|nAccess may berestricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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|aThe Earth's land and its inhabitants are in jeopardy. Ecosystems arethreatened in every corner of the world. Neocolonial forces define human relations increasingly in fundamentalist terms. Landsettlement patterns formulated during the colonial era have left more and more people on today's planet without property, without the resources needed to sustain a livable existence, and with only a combative understanding of identity. This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental change, and reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the enclosure movement has come to have a profound effect onhow we relate to the earth, and on how we conceive of ourselves as human beings. Analyzing narratives by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Salman Rushdie, and others, Marzec reveals the extent to which the legacy of enclosures continues to dictate the geopolitical reality of the present.
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|aEnclosures, Colonization, and the Robinson Crusoe Syndrome: Notes Toward an Ontology of Land -- The Territorialization of Land -- Problematizing Enclosure in the Eighteenth-Century -- Inhabiting Land in the Ageof Empire: Twentieth-Century Literature.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [175]-197) and index.
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|aEnglish fiction|xHistory and criticism.
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|aInclosures in literature.
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|aLand tenure in literature.
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|aLand use in literature.
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|aImperialism in literature.
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|aOntology in literature.
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