Decolonising Pastoral

This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of pastoral, a genre that has captured the Western imagination for centuries, across literature, art and music. Combining the practices of literary criticism and creative writing, Decolonising Pastoral develops a new series of tools for the project of the environmental humanities. With an emphasis on subjectivity and experience, essays and fictocriticism are woven with scholarship and stories to create a fresh critical framework. Six chapters foc