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