Author: Anthony Wilson
Quotes of Author: Anthony Wilson
Within this abstracted Southern culture, swamps remain tangible, physical spaces rather than simply collections of tropes. As Simon Schama, Donna Haraway, and others have claimed in a variety of ways, landscape is always, at least in part, a creation of culture-but the range and limits of that cultural creation are what interest the ecocritic. For W. G. T. Mitchell, in his 2002 book Landscape and Power, landscape becomes less a descriptive term than an act of creation: "{L}andscape doesn't merely signify or symbolize power relations; it is an instrument of cultural power, perhaps even an agent of power that is {or frequently represents itself as} independent of human intentions" {z}. book-quote
