{"product_id":"rogues-in-the-postcolony-narrating-extraction-and-itinerancy-in-india-hardcover","title":"Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStacey Balkan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn environmental humanist\u003c\/b\u003e'\u003cb\u003es study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRogues in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of Anglophone Indian picaresque novels that dramatize the impacts of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation on local communities in several Indian states. In this materialist history of development on the subcontinent, Stacey Balkan considers works by Amitav Ghosh, Indra Sinha, and Aravind Adiga that critique violent campaigns of enclosure and dispossession at the hands of corporate entities like the English East India Company and its many legatees. By foregrounding the intersections among landscape ideology, agricultural improvement, extractive capitalism, and aesthetic expression, \u003ci\u003eRogues in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e also attends to the complicity of popular aesthetic forms with political and economic policy, as well as the colonial and extractivist logics that often frame discussions around the so-called Anthropocene epoch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together questions about settler-colonial practices and environmental injustice, \u003ci\u003eRogues in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with an investigation of new extractivist frontiers, including solar capitalism, and considers the possibility of imagining life after extraction on the Indian subcontinent and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRogues in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of Anglophone Indian picaresque novels that dramatize the impacts of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation on local communities in several Indian states. In this materialist history of development on the subcontinent, Stacey Balkan considers works by Amitav Ghosh, Indra Sinha, and Aravind Adiga that critique violent campaigns of enclosure and dispossession at the hands of corporate entities like the English East India Company and its many legatees. By foregrounding the intersections among landscape ideology, agricultural improvement, extractive capitalism, and aesthetic expression, \u003ci\u003eRogues in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e also attends to the complicity of popular aesthetic forms with political and economic policy, as well as the colonial and extractivist logics that often frame discussions around the so-called Anthropocene epoch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together questions about settler-colonial practices and environmental injustice, \u003ci\u003eRogues in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with an investigation of new extractivist frontiers, including solar capitalism, and considers the possibility of imagining life after extraction on the Indian subcontinent and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStacey Balkan is assistant professor of English and environmental humanities at Florida Atlantic University. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eOil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158604845191,"sku":"9781952271359","price":179.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/72b67c17166195c295e9aee16ccce48f.webp?v=1733260112","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/rogues-in-the-postcolony-narrating-extraction-and-itinerancy-in-india-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}