Colonialism, Culture, Whales - (Environmental Cultures) by Graham Huggan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet</i>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 <i>The Cetacean Quartet</i>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'The whale swims in the gulf of comprehension between human and natural history, challenging us at every turn. In this riveting, diverting dissection of that fractured relationship, Graham Huggan teases out apposite cultural, literary and historical resonance to present a gripping new portrait of an animal that continues to defy our understanding even as it inspires our admiration. <i>Colonialism, Culture, Whales</i>is a highly recommended voyage into the troubled, beautiful world shared by the human and the whale.<br/>Philip Hoare, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Southampton, UK<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Graham Huggan</b> is Professor of English at the University of Leeds, UK. A leading postcolonial critic and environmental scholar, he is editor of the <i>Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies </i>(2013) and author of 14 books, including (co-written with Helen Tiffin) <i>Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment </i>(2010, 2nd ed. 2015) and <i>Nature's Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age </i>(2013).
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