Reimagining the Rascal : Boyhood subjection in Xavier Herbert's 'Poor Fellow My Country', and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

ISBN-13: 9783659966101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 52 str.

Gil Hardwick

Opis

Australian author Xavier Herbert's, 'Poor Fellow My Country', and the American Mark Twain's, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', both focus on lone, disaffiliated boys coming of age and finding their own way in life against explicitly detailed backgrounds of frontier instability and violence. How do these mature male authors explore such autonomous boyhoods subjected to ambiguous and often capricious rules and conditions of the frontier environment in their work, especially rendering them as they do against other 'normal' children as naked, unabashed children of nature?

O autorze

An experienced anthropologist and writer, Gil Hardwick is a gifted author. Over many years working as a field ethnographer in the vast Australian outback he has met real characters and enjoyed real-life adventures, bringing his personalities and his plots to vibrant life. Writing from life, he neither shies away from at times confronting dilemmas.