Leave It to Badger: Allan W. Eckert's <i>Incident at Hawk's Hill</i>

  • Kenneth Kidd University of Florida

Abstract

Kenneth Kidd's discussion of feral tales in the context of Allan W. Eckert's novel illustrates the complexities of feral tales and situates the ideas of human, Other, and nature within them. The veracity of the actual episode may be questioned but Eckert's story seems all the more realistic, it is suggested, because it operates within a specific established folkloric tradition, one in which science and mythology are entangled.

Author Biography

Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida
Kavid Beagley is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Literacy at La Trobe University's Bendigo campus, Victoria, Australia, where he teaches units in Genres, History, Australian and Post-colonial children's literature. He has previously taught in secondary schools, and has been a school and university librarian.
Section
Alice's Academy