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Journal Article
Recentring the Region Introduction to the Special Issue of JASAL on the ASAL & ASLEC-ANZ Conference RMIT University, 4-7 July 2023
2024
Overview
[...]it also exemplifies the critical capacities of Australian cosy crime fiction, in particular its attention to what has been termed \"eco-crime,\" alongside a commentary on the economic and social impacts of global capitalism on local communities. In The World in Which We Occur (2007), Neil W. Browne uses the term \"ecological writing\" for the literary understanding of the interaction between human and natural worlds that is evident in Becke's South Pacific work. Here Becke observes and discusses not only animals (particularly fish and birds), as well as flora and fauna of various Pacific Islands and the Australian east coast littoral, but also human participation in those environments and ecologies that includes the Islanders' sustainable management of their natural resources. At the turn of the nineteenth century, at a time when Europeans and settler Australians alike knew very little about the South Pacific, Becke articulated in his ecological writing the complex interactions between the region's human culture and natural world within his own literary ecosystem of the imagination in which writer, reader, text, landforms, creatures, and humans were vitally entwined.
