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Record Nr.

UNINA9910634070403321

Titolo

Dislocating the frontier : essaying the mystique of the outback / / Deborah Bird Rose, Richard Davis, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2005

ISBN

9781920942373

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 206 pages)

Disciplina

994

Soggetti

Australia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The frontier is one of the most pervasive concepts underlying the production of national identity in Australia. Recently it has become a highly contested domain in which visions of nationhood are argued out through analysis of frontier conflict. Dislocating the Frontier departs from this contestation and takes a critical approach to the frontier imagination in Australia. The authors of this book work with frontier theory in comparative and unsettling modes. The essays reveal diverse aspects of frontier images and dreams - as manifested in performance, decolonising domains, language, and cross-cultural encounters. Dislocating the Frontier takes readers beyond the notion of a progressive or disastrous frontier to a more radical rethinking of the frontier imagination itself.