“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry

“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry

emotions in Australian literature

solastalgia

metaphors of anger

Anthropocene

Australian wildfires

trauma

This essay discusses fire as a significant factor shaping Australian social and cultural life. It focuses first on the climate-change induced emotions such as eco-anxiety and anger that can be tied with the Australian landscape, and then moves on to a discussion of the presence and function of fire in selected contemporary Australian poetry. The reflection on the poetics of trauma in the second part of the essay is accompanied by a discussion of solastalgia connected with land dispossession as an experience of the First Nations expressed in the Aboriginal literature in English.

Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna

International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal; Vol. 26 No. 2 (2020): Australia: Climate, Crisis and Change; 87-102

International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal; Tom 26 Nr 2 (2020): Australia: Climate, Crisis and Change; 87-102

2300-8695

1641-4233

Lodz University Press

2022-01-30

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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