Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 “Feelings Are Strong Here” : A Proximate Reading of Solastalgia in The Last Pulse
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'In Anson Cameron’s The Last Pulse, the monkeywrenching protagonist blasts a dam in Queensland, rides on the resulting flood southwards and spreads his solastalgia around, an affect Glenn Albrecht defines as homesickness at home induced by local ecological loss. From water disputes overseas to those between the eastern Australian states, from the character’s drought-stricken home town in South Australia to the Murray–Darling Basin, the novel allows readers to experience solastalgia as a multiscalar affect capable of mobilising environmental activism, as well as mooring in and playing with the “arts of flow” informed by Indigenous water ethics. The scale and distance-conscious method of “proximate reading” can be applied to read the dynamic of the affect in such an expanded and sentient water ecology; in this way, it can provide crucial insights into how readers’ environmental feelings and thinking are constantly reconfigured alongside shifting borders within and beyond the watershed in the novel.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Journal of Australian Studies vol. 48 no. 1 2024 27633586 2024 periodical issue

    'Welcome to the first issue of the Journal of Australian Studies for 2024. This fresh new collection offers diverting scholarship to bring in the new year—from articles considering narratorial perspective and the reception of literary publications in the United States all the way through to Australian wool and 20th-century art.' (Emily Potter and Brigid Magner :Magic, Manufacturing and Memorialising : Introduction)

     

    2024
    pg. 121-134
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121-134 “Feelings Are Strong Here” : A Proximate Reading of Solastalgia in The Last Pulsesmall AustLit logo Journal of Australian Studies
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  • Murray-Darling Basin,
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