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The Magic Realist Compost in the Anthropocene: Improbable Assemblages in Canadian and Australian Fiction

par Maufort, Jessica
Editeur scientifique Meillon, Bénédicte BM
Référence Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth, Lexington Books, Lanham, page (239-255)
Publication Publié, 2020-11-01

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Comparing Canadian and Australian novels, this essay investigates the possible ramifications between the mode of magic realism and the field of material ecocriticism. It argues that this mode mobilises a “compost poetics/aesthetics” manifest in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle, and Thomas Wharton’s Icefields. Featuring as a physical presence in the narratives, the archetype of the compost encapsulates the authors’ thematic concerns and formal experiments. [...]