The first representative of American women nature writers, Mary Austin is honored as “the mother of American environmental movement”. Embodying quite a few concepts in agreement with the basic ideas of bioregionalism, her representative literary non-fiction The Land of Little Rain and The Land of Journey’s Ending can be referred to as typical bioregional literary non-fiction. Austin’s bioregional concepts anticipate contemporary bioregionalism. Being dialectical as well as adaptive to local conditions, her concepts on nature and culture have significant implications to China’s current efforts to promote ecological progress: when examining and handling the relationship between nature and humans, one should be dialectical as well as attentive to individual local conditions.
ZHANG Jianguo
. The Bioregional Consciousness in Mary Austin’s Representative Literary Non-fiction[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2014
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DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2014.04.014
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