Taylor Eggan. Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination. U of Virginia P, 2022. Pp. ix, 293.

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• Localización: Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, ISSN 0004-1327, ISSN-e 1920-1222, Vol. 54, Nº. 3-4, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Postcolonial Affect), págs. 257-259
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  • Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination

    Taylor Eggan

    Virginia, USA : University of Virginia Press, 2022

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  • According to Eggan, Heidegger's understanding of Landschaft (dwelling-in-landscape) is irrevocably linked to the coloniality of nature—in other words, landscape in Heidegger's work functions as a "process available only to particular individuals" (75) and is therefore exclusionary at its core (75). Eggan ultimately argues that Lawrence's St. Mawr (1925) offers a way out of the reductive settler-colonial paradigm of man/nature through his depiction of Native Americans—a point which is against the grain of much scholarship on Lawrence but one that is well-supported. While Unsettling Nature as a whole is an erudite and important examination of settler-colonial narratives, Eggan's conclusion that "all entities are natural aliens, guests on contested land" (241) skips years of necessary work on race, difference, and environmental justice.