Tom Lynch

Outback and Out West

The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary

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Produktbeschreibung

Tom Lynch examines the ecological consequences of a settler-colonial imaginary by comparing the expressions of settler colonialism in the literary output of the American West and Australian Outback.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781496221971
• ISBN-10: 1496221974
• Artikelnr.: 63331676

Autorenporträt

Tom Lynch is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature and the editor of Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time (Nebraska, 2017) and El Lobo: Readings on the Mexican Gray Wolf.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Field Notes: Resembling
Introduction: A Genealogy of Family Resemblance
Field Notes: Exploring
1. This Very Spot: Explorer Retracings, Whitefella Dreamings
Field Notes: Naming and Preserving
2. Strange Lands: The Lexicon of Landscapes and the Legacy of National
Parks
Field Notes: Herding
3. Cattle Country: The (Eco)pastoral Imaginary
Field Notes: Gardening
4. “Nothing but Land”: Women’s Pioneer Gardens and the Settler Imaginary
Field Notes: Belonging
5. Becoming Native: Eco-memoir, Bioregionalism, and Uncanny Settler
Belonging
Conclusion: Of Paruku and Ponca Corn
Notes
Bibliography
Index