Essays about: "Remembering Babylon"

Found 3 essays containing the words Remembering Babylon.

1. 1. Can the Subaltern Be Silent? : Silence as Resistance to Colonialism in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

   Author : Neira Arigita Cernuda; [2019]
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3. 2. Can the Nonhuman Speak? : A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Malin Moisander; [2017]
   Keywords : Postcolonial; Ecocriticism; Malouf; Remembering Babylon; Nonhuman; Pastoral; Environment;

   Abstract : This essay explores the representation of nonhuman nature in David Malouf’s postcolonial novel Remembering Babylon. By applying a postcolonial ecocritical framework to the narrative the essay shows how nonhuman nature, including the animalised human “other”, is subject to Western ideologies that see them as resources or services to be exploited. READ MORE

4. 3. Maxime Miranda in Minimis: Reimagining Swarm Consciousness and Planetary Responsibility

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Denise Ask Nunes; [2015]
   Keywords : Swarm Consciousness; insects; science-fiction; Jacques Derrida; umwelt; Jakob von Uexküll; Mitchell Tomashow; eco-criticism; planetary responsibility; Robert A. Heinlein; David Malouf; Orson Scott Card; Hayao Miyazaki;

   Abstract : This essay explores Swarm Consciousness in relation to the novels Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Remembering Babylon by David Malouf, and the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki. Through these novels, Swarm Consciousness can be reimagined in order to challenge the ways insects have previously been considered in literature. READ MORE