As interested in identifying the causes of the climate crisis as it is in offering a kind of alternative account of life in the wake of environmental apocalypse ... Goffe’s narrative moves so rapidly among disciplines...that it’s easy to lose track of where or when we are in space and time ... A noble and necessary, if at times unwieldy, example of what one such genre might look like, offering readers a novel account of post-colonial resistance, regeneration and survival.
Passionate ... Goffe uses her own heritage...to demonstrate the impacts of colonialism and how she has ties to several heritages and environments that met specifically because of those European incursions.
Goffe engages with complex ideas and history, and the book is not the easiest of reads. But she proves to be an engaging scholar, and her work will go far in reshaping academic approaches to her most interesting subject matter. A timely and refreshingly provocative study.
