When Grass on a Mountain Takes Fire, There Is Great Light
My thesis is a novel about a Dutch environmentalist who, disenchanted with the environmental movement in The Netherlands, expatriates to a peninsula in Turkey, which he hopes to save from development. He is a missionary, environmentalism is his religion. He carries an inheritance of colonialism and...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2011
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/705 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1818&context=theses |
| Summary: | My thesis is a novel about a Dutch environmentalist who, disenchanted with the environmental movement in The Netherlands, expatriates to a peninsula in Turkey, which he hopes to save from development. He is a missionary, environmentalism is his religion. He carries an inheritance of colonialism and doesn’t understand (nor feel he needs to) the local culture. After several missteps, he is murdered. His story is told retrospectively through the eyes of an American biologist who befriended him. |
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