“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry

• Authors: Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik

Abstracts

EN

This essay discusses fire as a significant factor shaping Australian social and cultural life. It focuses first on the climate-change induced emotions such as eco-anxiety and anger that can be tied with the Australian landscape, and then moves on to a discussion of the presence and function of fire in selected contemporary Australian poetry. The reflection on the poetics of trauma in the second part of the essay is accompanied by a discussion of solastalgia connected with land dispossession as an experience of the First Nations expressed in the Aboriginal literature in English.

Keywords

EN

emotions in Australian literature; solastalgia; metaphors of anger; Anthropocene; Australian wildfires; trauma

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 87-102

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik

• University of Lodz, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Department of British and Commonwealth Studies

• https://orcid.org/0000000276067127

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1641-4233.26.08

Biblioteka Nauki

2129807