Packing Death in Australian Literature

Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sidesaddresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, plant

studies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. The

book’s main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental,

vegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and to

do that from within the discipline of literary studies. Literary studies in

Australia continue to reflect disinterest or not enough interest in critical

engagements with the subjects of Australia’s oldest extant environments

and other beings beside humans. Packing Death in Australian Literature:

Ecocides and Eco-Sides foregrounds the vegetal and nonhuman

animal populations and contours of Australian Literature. Critical studies

relied on in Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and

Eco-Sides include books by CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller, Simon C.

Estok, Bill Gammage, Timothy Morton, Bruce Pascoe, Val Plumwood,

Kate Rigby, John Ryan, Wendy Wheeler, and Cary Wolfe. The selected

literary texts include work by Merlinda Bobis, Eric Yoshiaki Dando,

Nugi Garimara, Francesca Rendle-Short, Patrick White, and Evie Wyld.