Crimes against nature: Ecocritical discourse in south african crime fiction

Naidu, Sam

doi:10.1080/18125441.2014.950599

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“…In addition, respectful behavior, responsibility, solidarity, compassion, and caring attitude are the idylls concept's representation. The results of this study are in line with the findings by Naidu (2014), which indicate that criminal fictions in South Africa usually discuss environmental ethics. Through this study, it can be seen that Indonesian women writers use their novels as a medium to transform society's ethical attitude towards the environment.…”

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Representation of Ethical Values for Nature Sustainability: Ecological Wisdom in Novels by Indonesian Women

Sultan¹,

Anshari²

2021

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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It is imperative to investigate women writers' perspectives through their literary works to discover their beliefs and views on environmental issues. Environmental wisdom represented in literary works by Indonesian women have never been studied. This article aimed to examine environmental ethics represented in three novels authored by Indonesian women. The selected novels that were published in the last ten years served as the sources of the research data. A qualitative-interpretative research approach was utilized to reveal environmental ethics represented in the novels. The results of the analysis suggest that the novels depict various environmental ethics that reflect the environmental knowledge, attitudes, integrity, and awareness of the Indonesian women. This finding implies a shift in the ideology of women writers in developing countries, especially in the environmental aspects of the novels produced.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Representation of Ethical Values for Nature Sustainability: Ecological Wisdom in Novels by Indonesian Women

Sultan¹,

Anshari²

2021

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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“…In one of the first analyses of crime fiction and environmentalism, for example, Peter Jordan situates Carl Hiassen’s novels, such as Double Whammy (1988), entirely within the Florida context in which they are set (61–70). Likewise, in her study of Onsigbaar ( Blood Safari , 2009) by South African, Afrikaans‐language writer, Deon Meyer, Sam Naidu draws on the work of South African ecocritical scholars to argue for a critical practice that “is sensitive to the history of both human and environmental exploitation in this region,” meaning South Africa (60). More recent ecocritical approaches to crime fiction replicate the local paradigm by studying environmental issues in specific national and sub‐national regional contexts: Britain (K. Bishop; N. Bishop; Carroll; McLauchlan), Chile (Canepa), India (Paul), Mexico (Goldberg), Scandinavia (Mai), Sweden (Mäntymäki), and the diverse landscapes of the United States of America: California (Ashman), Florida (Horsley), Wyoming, and the Navajo Nation (Dechêne and Di Gregorio).…”

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CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

King¹

2021

The J of Popular Culture

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HE THEME OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND HUMAN-INDUCEDclimate change has become a staple of fiction and visual culture in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Indeed, the seeming ubiquity of environmental and climate fiction-or cli-fi for short-has led Mads Rosendahl Thomsen to identify it as one of four prominent themes in contemporary world literature (98,. 1 To date, critical attention to this phenomenon has centered primarily on "'literary' and middle-brow" fiction (Trexler 7) as well as science fiction (Milner and Burgmann). Nevertheless, there is also a substantial corpus of crime novels from around the world that investigate and interrogate issues of environmental damage and ecological (in)justice. These novels have been identified variously as environmental crime fiction, "nature-oriented mystery novels" (Murphy 143), "eco-thrillers" (McKie), "econoir" (K. Bishop 9), "ecologically conscious detective fiction" (Bandyopadhyay 70), and "ecological crime fiction" (Walton 115).These works of environmental, etc., crime fiction have not gone unnoticed by ecocritical scholars or by crime fiction scholars who employ ecocritical approaches to these novels. At its most basic, ecocriticism combines literary, film, and art analysis with environmental studies in order to better comprehend the ways in which the imaginative arts facilitate or, indeed, hinder interspecies connections (Buell et al. 418). Ecocritical approaches range from the study of representations of nature, understood as both wilderness and built environments (Buell, Future 22), to exploring expressions of environmental concerns (land degradation, pollution, species extinction, etc.) and,

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“…However, there are at present limited books and articles to refer students to as models of ecocritical analysis of crime fiction. 1 In its earliest days, ecocriticism was concerned with theories of nature and reactions to industrialisation found in Romantic poetry and American Transcendentalism. As the field grew, its focus diversified.…”

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Studies in Green: Teaching Ecological Crime Fiction

Walton

2018

Teaching Crime Fiction

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Crimes against nature: Ecocritical discourse in south african crime fiction

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Representation of Ethical Values for Nature Sustainability: Ecological Wisdom in Novels by Indonesian Women

Representation of Ethical Values for Nature Sustainability: Ecological Wisdom in Novels by Indonesian Women

CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

Studies in Green: Teaching Ecological Crime Fiction

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