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<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>Reply to: "Lloyd Davis" <<[log in to unmask]>
AUMLA Focus Issue: Nature and the Environment.
Deadline for submission: 1 April 2001.
</color>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.
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>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."
</color>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
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>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: [log in to unmask]
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