Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver

The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

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Produktbeschreibung

From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachel Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, and a source of violent conflict.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melbourne University Press
• Seitenzahl: 229
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780522875850
• ISBN-10: 0522875858
• Artikelnr.: 59423980

Autorenporträt

Ken Gelder is a Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. His books include Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998, with Jane M Jacobs), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004), Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007) and After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007 (2009, with Paul Salzman). Rachael Weaver is an ARC Senior Research Fellow in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of TheCriminal of the Century (2006) and, with Ken Gelder, The Colonial Journals: and the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture (2014) and Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy (2017).