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'The whale swims in the gulf of comprehension between human and natural history, challenging us at every turn. In this riveting, diverting dissection of that fractured relationship, Graham Huggan teases out apposite cultural, literary and historical resonance to present a gripping new portrait of an animal that continues to defy our understanding even as it inspires our admiration. Colonialism, Culture, Whales is a highly recommended voyage into the troubled, beautiful world shared by the human and the whale. * Philip Hoare, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Southampton, UK * Located at the nexus of ecocriticism, animal studies, postcolonial theory, and affect theory, Graham Huggan's Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet is a valuable recent study. * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *

'The whale swims in the gulf of comprehension between human and natural history, challenging us at every turn. In this riveting, diverting dissection of that fractured relationship, Graham Huggan teases out apposite cultural, literary and historical resonance to present a gripping new portrait of an animal that continues to defy our understating even as it inspires our admiration. Colonialism, Culture, Whales is a highly recommended voyage into the troubled, beautiful world shared by the human and the whale. * Philip Hoare, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Southampton, UK *

'The whale swims in the gulf of comprehension between human and natural history, challenging us at every turn. In this riveting, diverting dissection of that fractured relationship, Graham Huggan teases out apposite cultural, literary and historical resonance to present a gripping new portrait of an animal that continues to defy our understanding even as it inspires our admiration. Colonialism, Culture, Whales is a highly recommended voyage into the troubled, beautiful world shared by the human and the whale. * Philip Hoare, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Southampton, UK * Located at the nexus of ecocriticism, animal studies, postcolonial theory, and affect theory, Graham Huggan’s Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet is a valuable recent study. * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *

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Graham Huggan is Professor of English at the University of Leeds, UK. A leading postcolonial critic and environmental scholar, he is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies (2013) and author of 14 books, including (co-written with Helen Tiffin) Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (2010, 2nd ed. 2015) and Nature's Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age (2013).

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