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Outback and Out West - The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary (Hardcover)
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Outback and Out West - The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary (Hardcover)
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Outback and Out West examines the ecological consequences of a
settler-colonial imaginary by comparing expressions of settler
colonialism in the literature of the American West and Australian
Outback. Tom Lynch traces exogenous domination in both regions,
which resulted in many similar means of settlement, including
pastoralism, homestead acts, afforestation efforts, and bioregional
efforts at "belonging." Lynch pairs the two nations' texts to show
how an analysis at the intersection of ecocriticism and settler
colonialism requires a new canon that is responsive to the social,
cultural, and ecological difficulties created by settlement in the
West and Outback. Outback and Out West draws out the regional
Anthropocene dimensions of settler colonialism, considering such
pressing environmental problems as habitat loss, groundwater
depletion, and mass extinctions. Lynch studies the implications of
our settlement heritage on history, art, and the environment
through the cross-national comparison of spaces. He asserts that
bringing an ecocritical awareness to settler-colonial theory is
essential for reconciliation with dispossessed Indigenous
populations as well as reparations for ecological damages as we
work to decolonize engagement with and literature about these
places.
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