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Auteur(s) : Hughes-d'Aeth, Tony
Titre(s) : Like nothing on this earth [Texte imprimé] : [a literary history of the wheatbelt] / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
Publication : Crawley, Western Australia : UWA publishing, 2017
Description matérielle : x, 598 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Comprend : Preface: The clearing line ; Introduction: Songs of wheat ; Albert Facey ; Cyril
E. Goode ; James Pollard ; John Keith Ewers ; Peter Cowan ; Dorothy Hewett ;
Jack Davis ; Barbara York Main ; Elizabeth Jolley ; Tom Flood ; John Kinsella
; Epilogue: The wheatbelt in deep time.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
During the twentieth century, the southwestern corner of Australia was cleared for
intensive agriculture. In the space of several decades, an arc from Esperance to Geraldton,
an area of land larger than England, was cleared of native flora for the farming of
grain and livestock. Today, satellite maps show a sharp line ringing Perth. Inside
that line, tan-coloured land is the most visible sign from space of human impact on
the planet. Where once there was a vast mosaic of scrub and forest, there is now the
Western Australian wheatbelt. Tony Hughes-d'Aeth examines the creation of the wheatbelt
through its creative writing. Some of Australia's most well-known and significant
writers - Albert Facey, Peter Cowan, Dorothy Hewett, Jack Davis, Elizabeth Jolley,
and John Kinsella - wrote about their experience of the wheatbelt. Each gives insight
into the human and environmental effects of this massive-scale agriculture. Albert
Facey records the hardship and poverty of small-time selection in Australia. Dorothy
Hewett makes the wheatbelt visible as an ecological tragedy. Jack Davis shows us an
Aboriginal experience of the wheatbelt. Through examining this writing, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
demonstrates the deep value of literature in understanding the human experience of
geographical change
Sujet(s) : Littérature et société -- Australie-Occidentale
Écrivains australiens -- 20e siècle
Australie-Occidentale -- Dans la littérature
Genre ou forme : Littérature australienne -- Australie-Occidentale
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781742589244. - ISBN 1742589243
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45244226j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45244226
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