Brown, R (2019) Ballard, Sexual Landscapes and Nature. Green Letters, 22 (4). pp. 426-437. ISSN 1468-8417
Abstract
Ballard’s writing in the period between The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash reveals deep interest in the status of the natural in contemporary culture, and his fictionalising of a landscape that is ‘denatured’. Exploring the 1971 Harley Cokeliss television documentary Crash!, the interview with Lynn Barber and an item of Ballard’s contemporary reading reveals a context in which ideas of nature emerge in connection with debates about the cultural representation of sex, gender and desire. The development of this configuration of ideas is then explored in the later autobiographical fiction, The Kindness of Women, and the later environmental satire Rushing to Paradise where ideas of and assumptions about gender and the natural are further disturbed and brought into an environmental frame.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 ASLE-UKI. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Green Letters on 22 Jan 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2018.1529608. |
Keywords: | J.G. Ballard, nature, landscape, television, autobiography, sex, gender, environment. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2019 10:10 |
Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14688417.2018.1529608 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145154 |