Authors: Bronwyn Davies
ISBN-13: 9780742503199, ISBN-10: 0742503194
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Date Published: February 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Revisits the rather well-worn subject of body as landscape, conceptualizing inscription as that writing which brings bodies and/as landscapes into being. Davies (education, James Cook U., Australia) explores the relationship of body to landscape through works of fiction, the experiences of environmentalists, and through the development of writing strategies. Addressed are the relationships to land had by Australian women and by Australian male environmentalists; Japanese students, academics, and environmentalists; and landscape in the writings of Yasunari Kawabata, Sam Watson, Rodney Hall, and Janette Turner Hospital. While this is an academic book dealing with literary theory, Davies writes for the non-initiate, making the volume suitable for even advanced high schoolers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Prologue: or, Where does this book come from? | 7 | |
Pt. 1 | (In)scribing body/landscape relations: Australia | 11 |
1 | Landscapes and bodies | 13 |
2 | Writing stories of (be)longing | 37 |
3 | Australian men talk about becoming environmentalists | 63 |
Pt. 2 | (In)scribing body/landscape relations: Japan | 87 |
4 | Remembering Japanese childhoods | 89 |
5 | Traveling in Japan | 111 |
6 | Japanese environmentalists talk about Japanese body/landscape relations | 145 |
Pt. 3 | Subjection and the eclipsing of the constitutive power of discourse through fictional texts | 167 |
7 | An exploration of body/landscape relations in Kawabata's Yama no Oto | 173 |
8 | Reading and writing The Kadaitcha Sung: A novel by Sam Watson | 189 |
9 | The Second Bridegroom: A narrative of captivity in Australian landscapes | 215 |
10 | (Be)longing in the writing of Janette Turner Hospital: Eclipsing the constitutive force of discourse | 233 |
Conclusion: The ways and the song of the book | 249 | |
References | 257 | |
Index | 263 | |
Permissions | 275 | |
About the Author | 277 |