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Inscribing Body Landscape Relationships  
Author: Bronwyn Davies
ISBN: 0742503208
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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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.




Inscribing Body Landscape Relationships

SYNOPSIS

Revisits the rather well-worn subject of body as landscape, conceptualizing inscription as that writing which brings bodies and/as landscapes into being. Davies (education, James Cook U., Australia) explores the relationship of body to landscape through works of fiction, the experiences of environmentalists, and through the development of writing strategies. Addressed are the relationships to land had by Australian women and by Australian male environmentalists; Japanese students, academics, and environmentalists; and landscape in the writings of Yasunari Kawabata, Sam Watson, Rodney Hall, and Janette Turner Hospital. While this is an academic book dealing with literary theory, Davies writes for the non-initiate, making the volume suitable for even advanced high schoolers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Rowman & Littlefield

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

Rowman & Littlefield

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

Rowman & Littlefield

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

     



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