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Sir George Handley Knibbs History; Australia & New Zealand;
Australia; History / Australia & New Zealand; History / Oceania
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
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original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
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worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
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have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
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appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
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The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a
necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers
rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans
and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the
Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning
to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial
writers, the diverse contributions highlight the literary
imagination as crucial to representing what Eduoard Glissant calls
the "aesthetics of the earth." The essays are organized around a
group of thematic concerns that engage culture and cultivation,
arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the
relationship between the military and the tourist industry. With
chapters that address works by J. M. Coetzee, Kiran Desai, Derek
Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, Zakes Mda, and many others, Postcolonial
Ecologies makes a remarkable contribution to rethinking the role of
the humanities in addressing global environmental issues.
People who flyfish know that a favorite river bend, a secluded spot
in moving waters, can feel like home-a place you know intimately
and intuitively. In prose that reads like the flowing current of a
river, scholar and essayist George Handley blends nature writing,
local history, theology, environmental history, and personal memoir
in his new book Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo
River. Handley's meditations on the local Provo River watershed
present the argument that a sense of place requires more than a
strong sense of history and belonging, it requires awareness and
commitment. Handley traces a history of settlement along the Provo
that has profoundly transformed the landscape and yet neglected its
Native American and environmental legacies. As a descendent of one
of the first pioneers to irrigate the area, and as a witness to the
loss of orchards, open space, and an eroded environmental ethic,
Handley weaves his own personal and family history into the
landscape to argue for sustainable belonging. In avoiding the
exclusionist and environmentally harmful attitudes that come with
the territorial claims to a homeland, the flyfishing term, "home
waters," is offered as an alternative, a kind of belonging that is
informed by deference to others, to the mysteries of deep time, and
to a fragile dependence on water. While it has sometimes been
mistakenly assumed that the Mormon faith is inimical to good
environmental stewardship, Handley explores the faith's openness to
science, its recognition of the holiness of the creation, and its
call for an ethical engagement with nature. A metaphysical approach
to the physical world is offered as an antidote to the suicidal
impulses of modern society and our persistent ambivalence about the
facts of our biology and earthly condition. Home Waters contributes
a perspective from within the Mormon religious experience to the
tradition of such Western writers as Wallace Stegner, Terry Tempest
Williams, Steven Trimble, and Amy Irvine. Winner of the Mormon
Letters Award for Memoir.
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