K. Crane

Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives

Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-00078-1
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9781137000781
• ISBN-10: 1137000783
• Artikelnr.: 35681949

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

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