Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the devastating effects of the mining industries, to present concerns and futuristic visions of the effe...

Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun recovering earlier published and unpublished Indigenous works. Writing by Australian Aboriginals is making a decisive impression in fiction, autobiography, biography, poetry, film, drama, and ...

Die Welt, in der Frauen heute leben, ist trotz #MeToound immer größer werdenden öffentlichen Protesten gegen die Geschlechterungleichheit noch immer massiv vom Gender Pay Gap, der Sehnsucht nach dem perfekten Bikinibody und Mansplaining definiert. »The future is female! Was Frauen über Feminismus denken« ist das Buch für Mädchen und Frauen, die sich mit diesem ungenießbaren Cocktail nicht länger zufriedengeben wollen, eine einzigartige und vielstimmige Textsammlu...