A Dazzling Synthesis

Falconer, D

A Dazzling Synthesis

Falconer, D

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Publisher:: Writing and Society Research Centre University of Western Sydney
Publication Type:: Book Review
Citation:: Sydney Review of Books, 2021, (December 2 2021)
Issue Date:: 2021-12-02

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dc.contributor.author	Falconer, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7531-1781
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-19T06:19:43Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-12
dc.date.available	2022-03-19T06:19:43Z
dc.date.issued	2021-12-02
dc.identifier.citation	Sydney Review of Books, 2021, (December 2 2021)
dc.identifier.issn	2201-8735
dc.identifier.issn	2201-8735
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/155363
dc.description.abstract	This long review-essay considers Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse in the context of an authorial career in which Ghosh has insisted on placing the Indian Ocean basin at the centre of his critique the global environmental damage caused by the Anthropocene's violent extractive logic . It discusses the book's engagement with contemporary academic writing about colonialism and the more-than-human as Ghosh locates the origins of this "great derangement" in the Dutch East India Company's exploitation of the nutmeg-rich Banda Islands to make visible the long and programmatic history of racial violence at the heart of colonialism as a continuing ‘warfare of a distinctive kind’. It critiques the book's silence on gender.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Writing and Society Research Centre University of Western Sydney
dc.relation.ispartof	Sydney Review of Books
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing, 2005 Literary Studies
dc.title	A Dazzling Synthesis
dc.type	Book review
utslib.location.activity	Australia
utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing
utslib.for	2005 Literary Studies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
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dc.date.updated	2022-03-19T06:19:41Z
pubs.issue	December 2 2021
pubs.publication-status	Published online
utslib.citation.issue	December 2 2021

Abstract:

This long review-essay considers Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse in the context of an authorial career in which Ghosh has insisted on placing the Indian Ocean basin at the centre of his critique the global environmental damage caused by the Anthropocene's violent extractive logic . It discusses the book's engagement with contemporary academic writing about colonialism and the more-than-human as Ghosh locates the origins of this "great derangement" in the Dutch East India Company's exploitation of the nutmeg-rich Banda Islands to make visible the long and programmatic history of racial violence at the heart of colonialism as a continuing ‘warfare of a distinctive kind’. It critiques the book's silence on gender.

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