Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives

1. Introduction
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2. Wilderness as Projection: Reading Practices and Aritha Van Herk’s Places Far From Ellesmere

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3. Wilderness as Liminal Space: Tim Winton’s Dirt Music and Problems of the Map
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4. Wilderness Beyond Frontiers: Matrices of Belonging in Kim Mahood’s Craft For A Dry Lake

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5. Wilderness Values (I): Aesthetic and Scientific Rhetoric in Mark Hume’s River of the Angry Moon

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6. Wilderness Values (II): Protection and Exploitation In Julia Leigh’s The Hunter

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7. Wilderness Survival: Future Natures in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

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8. Epilogue
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Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Twentieth-Century Literature, Environment, general