Open AccessANNIE PROULX’S BIRD CLOUD AND ‘LITERATURE OF HOPE’
Author(s) -
Tatjana Cvetković
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
facta universitatis. series: linguistics and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0518
pISSN - 0354-4702
DOI - 10.22190/full2002151c
Subject(s) - relocation , representation (politics) , sense of place , history , sociology , aesthetics , art , computer science , social science , law , politics , political science , programming language
The paper focuses on Annie Proulx’s non-fiction work Bird Cloud and explores some of the ideas Proulx has postulated in her fiction, novels and short stories: a sense of place, home-ness, the history and archaeology of place, the sense of (non)-belonging, or conjunction and disjunction to use Slovic’s terms. Travel and relocation, prominent features of Proulx’s work, are what Barry Lopez describes as means of overcoming disjunction in remote locations and of cultivating intimacy with the landscape. Eventually they give rise to a fictional representation of landscape. We may conclude that for Proulx landscape writing becomes a “literature of hope” that