An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature : From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie

This book argues that humanitys relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the enclosure movement has effected not only the ecosystems and the geopolitics of the Twenty-First century, but on how we relate to the earth and conceive of ourselves as human.