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| Place and Selfconsciousness in Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place |
| Yuan Shuangshuang |
| College of Humanities and Communication, Shanghai Normal University，Shanghai 200234, China |
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Abstract As a concept in western modern environmentalism, place is a center of felt value and it has a close relationship with men. As the subject of culture, human mind is quite complicated. Therefore place has different levels of meaning to human. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place written by Terry Tempest Williams is a classic work of American nature literature. It shows the relationship between man and place and how selfconsciousness rely on place to achieve spiritual return when tragedy strikes. She finds refuge from The Great Salt Lake and birds. This relationship accords with “naming” which is a concept raised by Jonathan Bate: man is rooted in places with selfconsciousness and he could survey the relationship and the affection between him and place.
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2018, Vol. 20 
