AUMLA Focus Issue: Nature and the Environment.
Deadline for submission: 1 April 2001.
Articles on the special topic are invited; details listed are provided by
way of example and suggestion. Manuscripts (4000-9000 words) should be
submitted, by the deadline, to the Editor of AUMLA.
Nature and the environment have featured centrally in theories and
representations of the languages, literatures and cultures of all ethnic and
national groups since the classical period, from early pastoral genres
through science fiction to virtual ecology. Critical understandings of
nature and the environment address the interactions between the physical
surroundings which frame and inform human discourse and actions, and the
transforming impact of cultural activities on those surroundings.
Contributions may consider these interactions from diverse critical
perspectives. Topics covered might include: changing definitions of nature
from the ancient past to the present; links between politics and nature;
relationships between socio-economic systems (eg. feudalism or capitalism)
and the environment; the diversity of generic modes for representing nature;
the effects of colonialism and post-colonialism on the environment; the
place of ecocritical theory in contemporary critical practice; ideological
effects of nature-culture oppositions; the environment and aesthetics,
nature and art; the interplay between nature and language instincts and
acquisition; the poetics of nature; relationships between nature and gender;
local and global environments; nature, naturalization and ideology; nature
and "home."
AUMLA: The Journal of the Australian Universities Language and Literature
Association (ISSN 0001-2793) is a fully refereed journal which publishes
critical and analytical essays in all fields of literary, language and
cultural studies. AUMLA aims to maintain a multi- and interdisciplinary
approach in these areas as well as expanding its coverage of critical and
contemporary studies in literature, language and culture. The AUMLA web page
can be viewed at http://www.aumla.org
Please send inquiries and completed papers to:
Dr Lloyd Davis
Editor, AUMLA
Faculty of Arts
University of Queensland
Qld, 4072
Australia
Tel: 61 7 3365 1333
Fax: 61 7 3365 2866
Email: lloyd.davis@mailbox.uq.edu.au
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