“It’s a story that comes with the land”: Indigenous Land Rights and Environmentalism in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle and Tara June Winch’s The Yield – Mgr. Silvia Štulrajterová
Mgr. Silvia Štulrajterová
Master's thesis
“It’s a story that comes with the land”: Indigenous Land Rights and Environmentalism in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle and Tara June Winch’s The Yield
“It’s a story that comes with the land”: Indigenous Land Rights and Environmentalism in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle and Tara June Winch’s The Yield
Abstract:
Táto diplomová práca sa zameriava na perspektívy pôdy z pohľadu pôvodných obyvateľov a environmentálnych aktivistov, a porovnáva ich s osadnícko-koloniálnym chápaním pôdy ako komodity. Analytická časť ilustruje odlišné vnímanie týchto troch strán v knihe The Yield od austrálskej autorky Tary June Winch a v knihe The Back of the Turtle od kanadského autora Thomasa Kinga. Cieľom tejto práce je vykresliť …moreAbstract:
This thesis discusses the Indigenous and environmental perspectives on land and contrasts them with the settler-colonial notion of land as a commodity to be exploited. The analytical part exemplifies the diverging perceptions in The Yield by an Aboriginal Australian author Tara June Winch and in The Back of the Turtle by a Canadian author of Cherokee descent Thomas King. The aim of this thesis is to …more
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 14. 12. 2023
Identifier:
https://is.muni.cz/th/mwfdv/
Thesis defence
- Date of defence: 29. 1. 2024
- Supervisor: Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.
- Reader: B.A. Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel
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ŠTULRAJTEROVÁ, Silvia. \textit{“It’s a story that comes with the land”: Indigenous Land Rights and Environmentalism in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle and Tara June Winch’s The Yield}. Online. Master's thesis. Brno: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts. 2023. Available from: https://theses.cz/id/5jhput/.
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North-American Culture Studies / Anglophone and Francophone Area Studies