Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Death of the Parrot, Anti-Pastoral and the Anthropocene : Towards a Topopoetic Reading of John Kinsella
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'John Kinsella is a prolific writer from Western Australia. This article takes a topopoetic approach to considering his poetry and poetics by connecting studies of Yi-Fu Tuan’s topophilia and the paradoxical views of Zhuangzi and Thoreau in illustrating some tensions between language and place, connection and disconnection, and placement and displacement in Kinsella’s writings. In particular, I discuss Kinsella’s affective ties to the land and his anti-pastoral stance by parodying the European settlement on Country traditionally owned by Indigenous peoples. His poetry presents a dystopian world that challenges the old European sense of a pastoral society. By making connections between a Chinese sense of the earth and Kinsella’s poetics, I argue that as paradoxical as Kinsella's poetics may be, his writings, imbued with influences from different sources, demonstrate an effort to save the worsening earth.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Journal of Australian Studies vol. 46 no. 4 2022 25607953 2022 periodical issue

    'Welcome to the final issue of the Journal of Australian Studies for 2022. We are pleased to finish the year with a wide-ranging, robust issue that includes a special section focusing on China–Australia relations—which remains a dynamic and transforming terrain in Australian studies—as well as three general contributions that collectively demonstrate the diversity and strength of contemporary research in and beyond the field.' (Recovery, Collaboration and Oceanic Flows : Brigid Magner and Emily Potter, Introduction)

    2022
    pg. 419-433
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