Description
Book SynopsisThis is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other.
Trade ReviewDavies has given us a lush and exciting exploration of what is possible when body and landscape are thought and written together instead of in opposition. -- Elizabeth A. St. Pierre, (The University of Georgia)
I started reading this book and I just couldn't put it down! I was struck by the flow and wonderful looseness of the prose....The book sets out to unsettle certainty and it certainly succeeds. -- Robyn Langhurst, (University of Waikato)
Bronwyn Davies rewrites the academy in this exploration of body/landscape relations. She takes us on journeys intimate and global, from a dusty rural valley town in Australia to texts and contexts across the world and beyond our imaginings. In the process, Davies' conversations transform our limited understandings of body/mind, East/West, written/spoken, literature/life. At a time when the dry discourse of poststructuralism has become stale on our tongue, Davies brilliantly revives language and scholarly work and shows us the tantalizing possibilities of our shared stories. This work, like language itself, is alive, vibrant, strong. -- Lorri Neilsen, (Mount Saint Vincent University)
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Prologue or, Where does this book come from? Part 2 (In)scribing body/landscape relations: Australia Chapter 3 Landscapes and Bodies Chapter 4 Writing stories of (be)longing Chapter 5 Australian men talk about becoming environmentalists [with Hilary Whitehouse] Part 6 (In)scribing body/landscape relations: Japan Chapter 7 Remembering Japanese childhoods Chapter 8 Traveling in Japan Chapter 9 Japanese environmentalists talk about Japanese body/landscape relations Part 10 Subjection and the eclipsing of the constitutive power of discourse through fictional texts Chapter 11 An exploration of body/landscape relations in Kawabata's Yama no Oto [with Takeshi Osanai] Chapter 12 Reading and writing The Kadaithcha Sung: A novel by Sam Watson [with Sam Watson] Chapter 13 The Second Bridegroom: A Narrative of captivity in Australian landscapes Chapter 14 (Be)longing in the writing of Janette Turner Hospital:Eclipsing the constitutive force of discourse Chapter 15 Conclusion: The ways and the song of the book
