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20109028724 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781554582181 |
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9781554583065 |
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CaOTBNC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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CaOONL |
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CaOONL |
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MiTN |
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EY8Z |
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| Classification number |
PS169 .P7 |
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K47 2010 |
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PS8131* |
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PS8131 P7 |
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K47 2010 |
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PS8131 P7 |
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K47 2010 |
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C810.9/9712 |
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22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kerber, Jenny. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Writing in dust : |
| Remainder of title |
reading the prairie environmentally / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Jenny Kerber. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Waterloo, Ont. : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 258 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Environmental humanities series |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references: p. 221-243. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers the ways in which prairie writers have negotiated processes of ecological and cultural change in the region from the early twentieth century to the present. The book begins by proposing that current environmental problems in the prairie region can be understood by examining the longstanding tendency to describe its diverse terrain in dualistic terms--either as an idyllic natural space or as an irredeemable wasteland. It inquires into the sources of stories that naturalize ecological prosperity and hardship and investigates how such narratives have been deployed from the period of colonial settlement to the present. It then considers the ways in which works by both canonical and more recent writers ranging from Robert Stead, W.O. Mitchell, and Margaret Laurence to Tim Lilburn, Louise Halfe, and Thomas King consistently challenge these dualistic landscape myths, proposing alternatives for the development of more ecologically just and sustainable relationships among people and between humans and their physical environments. Writing in Dust asserts that "reading environmentally" can help us to better understand a host of issues facing prairie inhabitants today, including the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture, resource extraction, climate change, shifting urban-rural demographics, the significance of Indigenous understandings of human-nature relationships, and the complex, often contradictory meanings of eco-cultural metaphors of alien/invasiveness, hybridity, and wildness. |
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| Biographical or historical data |
Jenny Kerber teaches in the areas of Canadian and American literature, literary theory, and environmental criticism in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her essays on Canadian literary and environmental topics have appeared in Canadian Poetry, Canadian Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, and Green Letters. This is her first book. |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE |
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Issued also in electronic format. |
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Canadian literature |
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Prairie Provinces |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Prairie Provinces |
| General subdivision |
In literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Ecology in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nature in literature. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Environmental humanities. |
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| Materials specified |
Front cover image |
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<a href="http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca//Catalog/Covers/kerber.jpg">http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca//Catalog/Covers/kerber.jpg</a> |
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