“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry
This essay discusses fire as a significant factor shaping Australian social and cultural life. It focuses first on the climate-change induced emotions such as eco-anxiety and anger that can be tied with the Australian landscape, and then moves on to a discussion of the presence and function of fire...
| Published in: | International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Lodz University Press
2022
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.18778/1641-4233.26.08 https://doaj.org/article/00d95bdf91db41a7be8aacd7f46f63c1 |
| Summary: | This essay discusses fire as a significant factor shaping Australian social and cultural life. It focuses first on the climate-change induced emotions such as eco-anxiety and anger that can be tied with the Australian landscape, and then moves on to a discussion of the presence and function of fire in selected contemporary Australian poetry. The reflection on the poetics of trauma in the second part of the essay is accompanied by a discussion of solastalgia connected with land dispossession as an experience of the First Nations expressed in the Aboriginal literature in English. |
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