Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives: Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada
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.
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Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives: Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada
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.
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Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives: Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada

Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives: Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada

by K. Crane
Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives: Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada

Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives: Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada

by K. Crane

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349433421
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 10/19/2012
Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Edition description: 1st ed. 2012
Pages: 228
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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
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