This work examines relationships between humans, animals, and the environment. Divided into two sections that consider the postcolonial from environmental and zoocritical perspectives, the book looks at narratives of development in postcolonial writing, entitlement and belonging in pastoral, the politics of eating, representations of cannabalism, animality and spirituality, sentimentality and anthropomorphism, and much more.

Postcolonialism and the environment -- Development -- Entitlement -- Zoocriticism and the postcolonial -- Ivory and elephants -- Christianity, cannibalism and carnivory -- Agency, sex and emotion -- Postscript: After nature.