“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...
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University of Lodz Research Online
2022
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| Online Access: | https://digijournals.uni.lodz.pl/is/vol26/iss2/8 https://digijournals.uni.lodz.pl/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1174&context=is |
| 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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