Inscribing Body Landscape Relationships
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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
Prologue: or, Where does this book come from?7Pt. 1(In)scribing body/landscape relations: Australia111Landscapes and bodies132Writing stories of (be)longing373Australian men talk about becoming environmentalists63Pt. 2(In)scribing body/landscape relations: Japan874Remembering Japanese childhoods895Traveling in Japan1116Japanese environmentalists talk about Japanese body/landscape relations145Pt. 3Subjection and the eclipsing of the constitutive power of discourse through fictional texts1677An exploration of body/landscape relations in Kawabata's Yama no Oto1738Reading and writing The Kadaitcha Sung: A novel by Sam Watson1899The Second Bridegroom: A narrative of captivity in Australian landscapes21510(Be)longing in the writing of Janette Turner Hospital: Eclipsing the constitutive force of discourse233Conclusion: The ways and the song of the book249References257Index263Permissions275About the Author277
