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'There is a strong, though not uncontested view, that a tradition of 'place' or 'nature' writing has, until relatively recently, been largely absent in Australia. This essay examines the veracity of this claim, and suggests reasons for this alleged gap or 'silence' in our literature. It also considers the distinctive characteristics of Australian place writing as it has emerged over more recent decades and the ways in which this writing disrupts early representations of the continent as 'empty', particularly of Indigenous presence, but also of sound, of speech, of agency. This essay also suggests the potential for Australian nature writing to function contrapuntally, as both a form of response to this lively and expressive land, and as a means by which this same land may be invoked or 'sung' into the communicative space.' (Author's abstract)
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‘Singing Up’ the Silences : Australian Nature Writing as Disruption and Invocation
Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
Subjects:
- The Colonial Earth 2000 single work non-fiction
- Sea Spray and Smoke Drift : Preface 1993 single work criticism
- Hunters and Collectors : The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia 1996 single work non-fiction
- The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007 anthology criticism
- Tasmanian Nature Writing and Ecocriticism 2001 single work criticism
- Wings of the Kite-Hawk 2003 single work autobiography
- Nourishing Terrains : Australian Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness 1996 single work poetry non-fiction
- An Invitation to Ontopoetics: The Poetic Structure of Being 2007 single work criticism
- Belonging to Here: An Introduction 2003 single work essay
- The Blue Plateau : A Landscape Memoir 2009 single work prose
- We Call for a Treaty 1985 single work non-fiction
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