Cette auteure explore la tension entre un désir de bien collectif et la réalité de la compétition et du profit qui façonnent notre monde. À travers un corpus d'œuvres qui s'aventurent au-delà de la fiction traditionnelle, elle pose des questions vitales sur les maux humains et leur impact sur notre planète, tout en suggérant des pistes de remédiation. Alliant une passion pour l'activisme communautaire à son écriture, l'auteure se concentre sur la fiction écologique ancrée dans des conflits historiques entre les exploitants et ceux qui recherchent l'harmonie avec la nature. Cette création littéraire, située dans un monde aux accents réalistes, met au jour des luttes durables pour la préservation de l'environnement, offrant des récits captivants à un large public.
The narrative explores the struggle of self-sustaining communities against adversaries intent on exploiting their wetlands for agriculture. After a tragic loss, Clare and William find refuge among marsh dwellers and coastal farmers, forging new identities amidst the conflict. Their journey highlights themes of resilience, survival, and the clash between ecological preservation and development, as they navigate the challenges posed by both their pasts and the external threats to their new home.
Archetypal patterns endure because they give expression to perennial dilemmas submerged in the collective unconscious. Having examined more than 300 novels by both major and minor women writers over three centuries, Annis Pratt perceives in women's fiction distinctive elements of plot, characterization, image, and tone. She argues that women's fiction should be read as a mutually illuminative or interrelated field of texts reflecting feminine archetypes that are signals of a repressed tradition in conflict with patriarchal culture. Pratt suggests that the archetypal patterns in women's fiction provide a ritual expression containing the potential for the reader's personal transformation and that women's novels constitute literary variations on preliterary folk practices that are available in the realm of imagination even when they have long been absent from day-to-day life.