Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives

Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-43342-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Reihe: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crane, K.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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