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    Ecogothic Dislocations in hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees

    Byrne, EA (2017) Ecogothic Dislocations in hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 19 (7). pp. 962-975. ISSN 1369-801X

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    Abstract

    This essay reads Hanya Yanagihara’s first novel as an example of postcolonial dark archaeology. Drawing from Timothy Morton’s dark ecology and Rob Nixon’s slow violence, I argue the figure of sexual abuse and exploitation complicates notions of pristine indigeneity and corrupt anthropology, critically confusing notions of cultural, physical and ideological pollution, contamination, discovery and knowledge.

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 28 Mar 2018 14:43
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
    Additional Information: This is an Author Accepted Manuscript of a paper accepted for publication in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, published by and copyright Taylor & Francis.
    Divisions: Faculties > Arts and Humanities
    Research Centres > Creative Writing, English Literature and Linguistics
    Subject terms: 2002 Cultural Studies
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/620260
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2017.1403942
    ISSN 1369-801X

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