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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786065203321

Autore

Crane K

Titolo

Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives [[electronic resource] ] : Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada / / by K. Crane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-94710-2

1-137-00079-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

Disciplina

808.8032

820.9/994

820.9994

Soggetti

Literature   

Literature—Philosophy

Culture—Study and teaching

Literature, Modern—20th century

Environment

Postcolonial/World Literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Cultural and Media Studies, general

Twentieth-Century Literature

Environment, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Wilderness as Projection: Reading Practices and Aritha van Herk's Places Far from Ellesmere; 2 Wilderness as Liminal Space: Tim Winton's Dirt Music and Problems of the Map; 3 Wilderness Beyond Frontiers: Matrices of Belonging in Kim Mahood's Craft for a Dry Lake; 4 Wilderness Values (I): Aesthetic and Scientific Rhetoric in Mark Hume's River of the Angry Moon; 5 Wilderness Values (II): Protection and Exploitation in Julia Leigh's The Hunter; 6 Wilderness Survival: Future



Natures in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake; Epilogue

NotesWorks Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.