%0 Journal Article
%T The Postcolonial Picaro in Indra Sinha¡¯s Animal¡¯s People ¨C Becoming Posthuman through Animal¡¯s Eyes
%A Roman Bartosch
%J Ecozon@ : European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
%D 2012
%I EASLCE & GIECO
%X One of the effects of ecocritical scholarship can be seen in the questioning of postmodern attempts of a radical constructivism that understands the world as a discursive phenomenon and that opposes any notion of a ¡®reality¡¯ outside those discursive entanglements. In light of environmental crises in particular, to doubt an extradiscursive reality seems inappropriate. However, I will argue in this essay that narratives of catastrophe do follow specific dramatising rhetorics, and I will show how Indra Sinha¡¯s Animal¡¯s People questions and ultimately deconstructs these. By radically questioning the idea of a stable reality and authentic means to narrate it, postcolonial ecocriticism in general, and Animal¡¯s People in particular, engenders a sense of the tension between reality and representational ideology, and it enables a way of experiencing this conflict through the eyes of an ecological posthumanism.
%U http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/215/508