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

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.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

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

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