Anthropocene Presences and the Limits of Deferral: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and The Swan Book

Literary criticism, particularly ecocriticism, occupies an uneasy position with regard to activism: reading books (or plays, or poems) seems like a rather leisurely activity to be undertaking if our environment—our planet—is in crisis. And yet, critiquing the narratives that structure worlds and dis...

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Main Author: Kylie Crane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-02-01
Series:Open Library of Humanities
Online Access:https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4546/