“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry Cover Image

“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry
“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry

Author(s): Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Poetry
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: emotions in Australian literature; solastalgia; metaphors of anger; Anthropocene; Australian wildfires; trauma

Summary/Abstract: This essay discusses fire as a significant factor shaping Australian social and cultural life. It focuses first on the climate-change induced emotions such as eco-anxiety and anger that can be tied with the Australian landscape, and then moves on to a discussion of the presence and function of fire in selected contemporary Australian poetry. The reflection on the poetics of trauma in the second part of the essay is accompanied by a discussion of solastalgia connected with land dispossession as an experience of the First Nations expressed in the Aboriginal literature in English.

  • Issue Year: 26/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 87-102
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English