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Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place by Daniel Coleman (review)
Ist Teil von
Ariel, 2020-04, Vol.51 (2), p.275-277
Ort / Verlag
Calgary: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Following them, he examines homesteading, settlement, purchase and barter and growth in an urban area much maligned as Canada's charmless industrial armpit, that "soot-stained gritty city that grips the southwestern shoreline of Lake Ontario" (10). In this Anthropocene epoch, human rampage and rapacity is intent on controlling, herding, and manipulating landscape, the natural world itself ancillary to human desire and ambition. Aritha van Herk Aritha van Herk is the author of five novels, two books of criticism, and many non-fiction and ficto-critical texts, especially works investigating the idea of geographical and historical temperament as tonal accompaniment to landscape.