Dry Country, Wet City: A World-Ecological Reading of Drought in Thea Astley’s <i>Drylands</i>

Using a postcolonial and world-ecological framework, this article analyses the representation of water as an energy source in Thea Astley’s last and most critically acclaimed novel <i>Drylands</i> (1999). As environmental historians have argued, the colonial, and later capitalist, settle...

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Main Author: Ashley Cahillane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/3/79