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Tag: Nature

Carson, Rachel, “The Sense of Wonder” (Harper 1998).

The night is a time, too, to listen for other voices, the calls of bird migrants hurrying northward in the … More

autumn, birds, children, environment, fall, migratory birds, Nature, night, parenting

Ní Ghriofa, Doireann, “A Ghost in the Throat” (Biblioasis, 2020).

The gesture of pinching clothes to the line requires my arms to reach skywards, to where clouds gush by, a … More

domestic work, domesticity, Fiction, Irish literature, motherhood, Narratives, Nature, parenting

Smith, Mistinguette, “Wild Black Margins”, Wildness: Relations of People and Place, (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

The notion of the wold requires a colonial memory, one unwilling to witness long histories of indigenous naming, habitation, settlement, … More

African American, Afro Caribbean, black imagination, blackness, environment, Nature, nature writing, wilderness, wildness

Pyle, Robert Micheal, “Conundrum and Continuum”, Wildness: Relations of People and Place, (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

For here’s the big secret: it’s not a matter of ‘wild’ or ‘non-wild’. Wildness (in the sense of that which … More

dualism, environment, Nature, nature writing, place, wilderness, wildness

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