Cyclone Country: The Language of Place and Disaster in Australian Literature

ISBN-13: 9781476681566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 210 str.

Chrystopher J. Spicer

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments vi
• Foreword by Stephen Torre 1
• Introduction 5
• One. The Cyclone Written into the Language of Place 9
• Two. The Naming of the Disaster 44
• Three. "Big wind, he waiting there": Vance Palmer's Cyclones of Apocalypse and Their Power of Revelation 64
• Four. "Touching the edges of cyclones": Thea Astley's Cyclones of Revelation 84
• Five. Threading the Eye of the Cyclone: Elizabeth Hunter's Epiphany in Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm 98
• Six. Earth Breathing: Susan Hawthorne's Cyclone Within 117
• Seven. The Apocalypse and Epiphany of Cyclone in the Land of Alexis Wright's Carpentaria 135
• Eight. The Word Becomes the Cyclone: Revelations of the Literary Storm 155
• Appendix A: Fiction and Poetry Written and/or Set in Queensland Featuring Cyclones 173
• Appendix B: Selected International Novels and Poetry Works Featuring Cyclonic Storms 176
• Bibliography 179
• Index 193