Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent

Beate Neumeier is professor of English literature at the University of Koln in Germany. Helen Tiffin is adjunct professor of post-colonial and animal studies at the University of New England, Australia.

This is a timely and wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume that offers both breadth and depth in its expert coverage of contemporary ecocritical issues in Australia. It comprises an important collection of essays that will be essential reading for environmental humanities scholars and all those concerned with the global and local effects of the Anthropocene.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBeate NeumeierSection 1: Politics of the Land and Indigenous Knowledge1 The Museumesque in Pristine WildernessAlexis Wright2 The Smooth Spaceof theNomads: IndigenousOutopia, IndigenousHeterotopiaand the Exampleof AustraliaNorbert Finzsch3 From Reverence to Rampage: Care for Country vs. Ruthless ExploitationCatherine LaudineSection 2: Colonial Legacies and Current Environmental Concerns 4 Australian Conservation Policies and the Owls of Lord Howe IslandHelen Tiffin5Biological Colonisation in the Land of FlowersAnna Haebich6 Moving Trees and Trading Melons: Reconstructing Local Knowledge and Settler Practices in 1840s South AustraliaEva BischoffSection 3: Ecocriticism and Fieldwork7 Ecologies of the Otherwise: Glimpses of Australia after the Resources BoomCarsten Wergin8 On The Beaten Track: Ambiguous Wilderness in the Tourist Space of Indigenous Australia Anke Tonnaer9 Yan-nha?u Language of the Crocodile Islands: Anchoredness, Kin, and CountryDany Adone, Melanie Brück, Bentley JamesSection 4: Ecocritical Approaches to Colonial Art10 Reconstructing Representations: ‘Australia’ as Ecocritical AndragogyCA Cranston11 Killing and Sentiment in the Colonial Australian Kangaroo Hunt NarrativeKen Gelder and Rachael Weaver12 Marriage, Mining and Environmental Destruction in Nineteenth-Century Fiction about AustraliaPhilip MeadSection 5: Ecocritical Concerns Across Contemporary Arts: Indigenous Voices in Fiction, Poetry and Performing Arts13 Performing the Anthropocene: Marrugeku’s Cut the SkyHelen Gilbert14 Corporate Interest and the Power of Mines in Indigenous Writing and Film: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria (2006) and Ivan Sen’s Goldstone (2016)Victoria Herche and David Kern 15 Defying the ‘Ecological Indian’: The Urban Ecopoetry of Samuel Wagan WatsonKatrin AlthansSection 6: Coda – Crossing Boundaries16 Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: Two Personal AccountsHelen Tiffin and Sandra WilliamsAbout the Contributors