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This chapter surveys and assesses from an ecocentric perspective some representative literary portrayals of the Australian deserts. Generally, it contrasts works that portray the desert as an alien, hostile, and undifferentiated void with works that recognise and value the biological particularities of specific desert places. It explores the literature of three dominant cultural orientations to the deserts: pastoralism, mining, and traversal. It concludes with a consideration of several multi-voiced and/or multi-genred bioregionally informed works that suggests fruitful directions for more ecocentric literary approaches. (abstract taken from The Littoral Zone)
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Literature in the Arid Zone
Subjects:
- Naked Under Capricorn 1958 single work novel
- No Roads Go By 1932 single work autobiography
- From That Day to This 1961 single work autobiography
- Icing on the Damper : Life Story of a Family in the Outback 1995 single work autobiography
- Craft for a Dry Lake 2000 single work autobiography
- Lasseter's Last Ride : An Epic of Central Australian Gold Discovery 1931 single work biography
- Wake in Fright 1961 single work novel
- Tourmaline 1963 single work novel
- An Item from the Late News 1982 single work novel
- Oyster 1996 single work novel
- Tracks 1980 single work autobiography
- Voss : A Novel 1957 single work novel
- A Horse of Air 1970 single work novel
- The Falling Woman 1992 single work novel
- Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence 1996 single work biography
- Hiam 1998 single work novel
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