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

Author:   K. Crane
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9781137000781


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   19 October 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives: Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada


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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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Author:   K. Crane
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781137000781


ISBN 10:   1137000783
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   19 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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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Quite expansive and thought-provoking . . . Myths of Wilderness is a useful contribution to scholarship on wilderness writing. - Journal of Postcolonial Writing


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


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


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


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

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