Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives

Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada

AvK. Crane

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-19
Mått:140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Antal sidor:228
Upplaga:2012
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137000781

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

KYLIE CRANE is a Junior Professor for Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Mainz, Germany.

Recensioner i media

"Quite expansive and thought-provoking ... Myths of Wilderness is a useful contribution to scholarship on wilderness writing." - Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Innehållsförteckning

An(n)alogies of reading place: Aritha van Herk's Places Far From Ellesmere Go on the country, not on the map: Tim Winton's Dirt Music A 'calligraphy of landscape': Kim Mahood's Outback in Craft for a Dry Lake 'Line drifts between the opposing points': Mark Hume's River of the Angry Moon 'Different shades of stripes': The Tasmanian Tiger and Julia Leigh's The Hunter Culture Nature Future: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake