Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives [electronic resource] : Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada /
Crane, K.author.
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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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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.