Writing in dust : reading the prairie environmentally /
Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers the ways in which prairie writers have negotiated processes of ecological and cultural change in th...
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Environmental humanities
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| 260 | |a Waterloo, Ont. : |b Wilfrid Laurier University Press, |c ©2010. | ||
| 300 | |a xi, 258 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers the ways in which prairie writers have negotiated processes of ecological and cultural change in the region from the early twentieth century to the present. The book begins by proposing that current environmental problems in the prairie region can be understood by examining the longstanding tendency to describe its diverse terrain in dualistic terms--either as an idyllic natural space or as an irredeemable wasteland. It inquires into the sources of stories that naturalize ecological prosperity and hardship and investigates how such narratives have been deployed from the period of colonial settlement to the present. It then considers the ways in which works by both canonical and more recent writers ranging from Robert Stead, W.O. Mitchell, and Margaret Laurence to Tim Lilburn, Louise Halfe, and Thomas King c. | ||
| 530 | |a Issued also in electronic format. | ||
| 545 | 0 | |a Jenny Kerber teaches in the areas of Canadian and American literature, literary theory, and environmental criticism in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her essays on Canadian literary and environmental topics have appeared in Canadian Poetry, Canadian Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, and Green Letters. This is her first book. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a "This soil is rich" : reading the environment in the early prairie novel -- How do you grow a nature writer? : the prairie nature memoir -- Unsettling the prairie : the ecological poetries of Tim Lilburn, Louise Halfe, and Madeline Coopsammy -- "We're just getting started" : storytelling as environmental work in Green grass, Running water, Sweeter than all the world, and The diviners. | |
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