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Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

von: Beate Neumeier, Helen Tiffin, Dany Adone, Katrin Althans, Eva Bischoff, C.A. Cranston, Melanie Brück, Norbert Finzsch, Ken Gelder, Helen Gilbert, Anna Haebich, Victoria Herche, Bentley James, David Kern, Catherine Laudine, Philip Mead, Anke Tonnaer, Rachael Weaver, Carsten Wergin, Sandra Williams, Alexis Wright
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Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	08.11.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9781498564021
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	310

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Titelbeschreibung

Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent
 investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the devastating effects of the mining industries, to present concerns and futuristic visions of the effects of climate change. Of central concern in all of these contexts is the impact of settler colonialism and an increasing turn to indigenous knowledge systems. A number of chapters engage with questions of ecological imperialism in relation to specific sociohistorical moments and effects, probing early colonial encounters between settlers and indigenous people, or rereading specific forms of colonial literature. Other essays take issue with past and present constructions of indigeneity in different contexts, as well as with indigenous resistance against such ascriptions, while the importance of an understanding of indigenous notions of “care for country” is taken up from a variety of different disciplinary angles in terms of interconnectedness, anchoredness, living country, and living heritage.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This book investigates an array of approaches to different scholarly discourses and accounts of activist engagements. Major concerns are biodiversity, preservation policies, mining industries, and climate change in relation to settler colonialism and indigenous knowledge systems in Australia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
 
 
Introduction
 
 
Beate Neumeier
 
 
 
 
Section 1: Politics of the Land and Indigenous Knowledge
 
 
 
 
1 The Museumesque in Pristine Wilderness
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Alexis Wright
 
 
 
 
 
2 The Smooth Space
of the
Nomads: Indigenous
Outopia
, 
Indigenous
Heterotopia
 
 
and 
the Example
of Australia
 
 
Norbert Finzsch
 
 
 
 
 
3 From Reverence to Rampage: Care for Country vs. Ruthless Exploitation
 
 
Catherine Laudine
 
 
 
 
 
Section 2: Colonial Legacies and Current Environmental Concerns 
 
 
 
 
4 Australian Conservation Policies and the Owls of Lord Howe Island
 
 
Helen Tiffin
 
 
 
 
 
5
 
Biological Colonisation in the Land of Flowers
 
 
Anna Haebich
 
 
 
 
 
6 Moving Trees and Trading Melons: Reconstructing Local Knowledge and Settler Practices in 1840s South Australia
 
 
Eva Bischoff
 
 
 
 
 
Section 3: Ecocriticism and Fieldwork
 
 
 
 
7 Ecologies of the Otherwise: Glimpses of Australia after the Resources Boom
 
 
Carsten Wergin
 
 
 
 
 
8 On The Beaten Track: Ambiguous Wilderness in the Tourist Space of Indigenous Australia 
Anke Tonnaer
 
 
 
 
9 Yan-nhaŋu Language of the Crocodile Islands: Anchoredness, Kin, and Country
 
 
Dany Adone, Melanie Brück, Bentley James
 
 
 
 
 
Section 4: Ecocritical Approaches to Colonial Art
 
 
 
 
10 Reconstructing Representations: ‘Australia’ as Ecocritical Andragogy
 
 
CA Cranston
 
 
 
 
 
11 Killing and Sentiment in the Colonial Australian Kangaroo Hunt Narrative
 
 
Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
 
 
 
 
 
12 Marriage, Mining and Environmental Destruction in Nineteenth-Century Fiction about Australia
 
 
Philip Mead
 
 
 
 
Section 5: Ecocritical Concerns Across Contemporary Arts: Indigenous Voices in Fiction, Poetry and Performing Arts
 
 
 
 
13 Performing the Anthropocene: Marrugeku’s 
Cut the Sky
 
 
Helen Gilbert
 
 
 
 
14 Corporate Interest and the Power of Mines in Indigenous Writing and Film: 
 
 
Alexis Wright’s 
Carpentaria
 (2006) and Ivan Sen’s 
Goldstone
 (2016)
 
 
Victoria Herche and David Kern 
 
 
 
 
15 Defying the ‘Ecological Indian’: The Urban Ecopoetry of Samuel Wagan Watson
 
 
Katrin Althans
 
 
 
 
 
Section 6: Coda – Crossing Boundaries
 
 
 
 
16 Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: Two Personal Accounts
 
 
Helen Tiffin and Sandra Williams
 
 
 
 
About the Contributors

Autorenportrait

Beate Neumeier is professor of English literature at the University of Koln in Germany. 
 Helen Tiffin is adjunct professor of post-colonial and animal studies at the University of New England, Australia.