Packing Death in Australian Literature

Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sidesaddresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, planstudies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. Thbook’s main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmentalvegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and tdo that from within the discipline of literary studies. Literary studies iAustralia continue to reflect disinterest or not enough interest in criticaengagements with the subjects of Australia’s oldest extant environmentand other beings beside humans. Packing Death in Australian LiteratureEcocides and Eco-Sides foregrounds the vegetal and nonhumaanimal populations and contours of Australian Literature. Critical studierelied on in Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides anEco-Sides include books by CA. Cranston and Robert Zeller, Simon CEstok, Bill Gammage, Timothy Morton, Bruce Pascoe, Val PlumwoodKate Rigby, John Ryan, Wendy Wheeler, and Cary Wolfe. The selecteliterary texts include work by Merlinda Bobis, Eric Yoshiaki DandoNugi Garimara, Francesca Rendle-Short, Patrick White, and Evie Wyld.