Myths of wilderness in contemporary narratives
Subtitle: environmental postcolonialism in Australia and Canada
By: Kylie Crane
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781137000781
Subjects: Wilderness areas in literature; History and criticism; Australian literature; Ecocriticism; Narration (Rhetoric); Canadian literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism
Description: "The concept of "wilderness" as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought and writing has become the subject of vigorous debates over the last two decades. This book offers a carefully articulated taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in recent Australian and Canadian literature, expanding on this work in unusual ways by re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies. In its combination of ecocriticism, postcolonialism, and cultural geography, Crane makes an important and original contribution to current ecocritical research."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.