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100	1		_aKerber, Jenny.
245	1	0	_aWriting in dust : _breading the prairie environmentally / _cJenny Kerber.
260			_aWaterloo, Ont. : _bWilfrid Laurier University Press, _cc2010.
300			_axi, 258 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aEnvironmental humanities series
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references: p. 221-243.
520			_aWriting 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.
545	0		_aJenny 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			_aIssued also in electronic format.
650		0	_aCanadian literature _zPrairie Provinces _xHistory and criticism.
651		0	_aPrairie Provinces _xIn literature.
650		0	_aEcology in literature.
650		0	_aNature in literature.
830		0	_aEnvironmental humanities.
856	4	2	_3Front cover image _uhttp://www.wlupress.wlu.ca//Catalog/Covers/kerber.jpg
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