De trace en trace : une sanctuarisation à l’œuvre dans les textes de Rick Bass

The American writer Rick Bass sees his writing as a weapon to show the urgency of preserving wild territories from the influence of man. First, this article wishes to explore how Bass's writing tries to recreate the fragile dimension of the nonhuman world. However, the writer also presents how...

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Main Author: Claire Cazajous-Augé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2016-05-01
Series:Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/3488
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description The American writer Rick Bass sees his writing as a weapon to show the urgency of preserving wild territories from the influence of man. First, this article wishes to explore how Bass's writing tries to recreate the fragile dimension of the nonhuman world. However, the writer also presents how animal tracks can appear outside of the wilderness. Yet, far from threatening the process of sanctuarization at stake in Bass's texts, the intrusion of nonhuman elements in more civilized territories reveals that different ways of inhabiting the world can coexist.
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title De trace en trace : une sanctuarisation à l’œuvre dans les textes de Rick Bass
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title_short De trace en trace : une sanctuarisation à l’œuvre dans les textes de Rick Bass
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