(In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations / Edition 1

by Bronwyn Davies

Overview

Chapter 1 Prologue or, Where does this book come from?
Part 2 (In)scribing body/landscape relations: Australia
Chapter 3 Landscapes and Bodies
Chapter 4 Writing stories of (be)longing
Chapter 5 Australian men talk about becoming environmentalists [with Hilary Whitehouse]
Part 6 (In)scribing body/landscape relations: Japan
Chapter 7 Remembering Japanese childhoods
Chapter 8 Traveling in Japan
Chapter 9 Japanese environmentalists talk about Japanese body/landscape relations
Part 10 Subjection and the eclipsing of the constitutive power of discourse through fictional texts
Chapter 11 An exploration of body/landscape relations in Kawabata's Yama no Oto [with Takeshi Osanai]
Chapter 12 Reading and writing The Kadaithcha Sung: A novel by Sam Watson [with Sam Watson]
Chapter 13 The Second Bridegroom: A Narrative of captivity in Australian landscapes
Chapter 14 (Be)longing in the writing of Janette Turner Hospital: Eclipsing the constitutive force of discourse
Chapter 15 Conclusion: The ways and the song of the boo

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742503205
Publisher:	AltaMira Press
Publication date:	02/09/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.86(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Bronwyn Davies is professor of education at James Cook University in the far north of Australia. She has played a major role in translating the philosophical principles of poststructuralist theory into practice.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Prologue or, Where does this book come from? Part 2 (In)scribing body/landscape relations: Australia Chapter 3 Landscapes and Bodies Chapter 4 Writing stories of (be)longing Chapter 5 Australian men talk about becoming environmentalists [with Hilary Whitehouse] Part 6 (In)scribing body/landscape relations: Japan Chapter 7 Remembering Japanese childhoods Chapter 8 Traveling in Japan Chapter 9 Japanese environmentalists talk about Japanese body/landscape relations Part 10 Subjection and the eclipsing of the constitutive power of discourse through fictional texts Chapter 11 An exploration of body/landscape relations in Kawabata's Yama no Oto [with Takeshi 'sanai] Chapter 12 Reading and writing The Kadaithcha Sung: A novel by Sam Watson [with Sam Watson] Chapter 13 The Second Bridegroom: A Narrative of captivity in Australian landscapes Chapter 14 (Be)longing in the writing of Janette Turner Hospital:Eclipsing the constitutive force of discourse Chapter 15 Conclusion: The ways and the song of the book

What People are Saying About This

Elizabeth A. St. Pierre

Davies has given us a lush and exciting exploration of what is possible when body and landscape are thought and written together instead of in opposition.
— Elizabeth A. St. Pierre

Lorri Neilsen

Bronwyn Davies rewrites the academy in this exploration of body/landscape relations. She takes us on journeys intimate and global, from a dusty rural valley town in Australia to texts and contexts across the world and beyond our imaginings. In the process, Davies' conversations transform our limited understandings of body/mind, East/West, written/spoken, literature/life. At a time when the dry discourse of poststructuralism has become stale on our tongue, Davies brilliantly revives language and scholarly work and shows us the tantalizing possibilities of our shared stories. This work, like language itself, is alive, vibrant, strong.
— Lorri Neilsen

Robyn Langhurst

I started reading this book and I just couldn't put it down! I was struck by the flow and wonderful looseness of the prose...The books sets out to unsettle certainty and it certainly succeeds.
— Robyn Langhurst

Editorial Reviews

Davies has given us a lush and exciting exploration of what is possible when body and landscape are thought and written together instead of in opposition.

Elizabeth A. St. Pierre

Bronwyn Davies rewrites the academy in this exploration of body/landscape relations. She takes us on journeys intimate and global, from a dusty rural valley town in Australia to texts and contexts across the world and beyond our imaginings. In the process, Davies' conversations transform our limited understandings of body/mind, East/West, written/spoken, literature/life. At a time when the dry discourse of poststructuralism has become stale on our tongue, Davies brilliantly revives language and scholarly work and shows us the tantalizing possibilities of our shared stories. This work, like language itself, is alive, vibrant, strong.

Lorri Neilsen

I started reading this book and I just couldn't put it down! I was struck by the flow and wonderful looseness of the prose....The book sets out to unsettle certainty and it certainly succeeds.

Robyn Langhurst