Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives

Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada

K. Crane

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781137000781
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137000798
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• 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
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index