Landscape, place and culture : linkages between Australia and India / edited by Deb N. Bandyopadhyay, Paul Brown and Christopher Conti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bandyopadhyay, Deb N. (Deb Narayan)

Brown, Paul (Paul Frederick)

Conti, Christopher.

Indian Association for the Study of Australia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Human ecology--History.

Cultural geography--Australia.

Cultural geography.

Cultural geography--India.

Human geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle Upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to the ecological, social, economic and, in particular, the cultural dimensions of the Australia-India relationship. The essays provide many levels of focus on environment, place and culture. Some evoke appreciation of particular "places," either in India or Australia. Many explore how literature has treated "landscape," while some are comparative studies of cultural, historical and political development. The essays arise from a p...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; PART I; THE TWO WAY FLOW; LANDSCAPE AND IDENTITY IN 19TH CENTURY POETRY OF AUSTRALIA; PART II; "MAGIC OF DAWN"; THE RIVER IS THREE-QUARTERS EMPTY; PART III; THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE JAMES SERVICE FROM CALCUTTA TO MELBOURNE, JULY 1878; WAR IN BLACK AND WHITE; PART IV; COLONIAL OBJECTS; RETURN OF THE REVENANT; PART V; THE SPARK OF REBELLION; UNEARTHING THE FIRST NATIVE-BORN AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST; BOLLYWOOD IN AUSTRALIAN STYLE; TRACING TRAMJATRA; A TALE OF TWO CITIES; PART VI; WATER, SOAP AND SANITATION; NATIVE NEWSPAPER AND COLONIAL OWNER

PART VIITERRAINS OF SELF-FASHIONING; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-283-14211-2

1-4438-2756-8

9786613142115

OCLC:

830168618