Dislocating the frontier : essaying the mystique of the outback /
"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 conte...
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Canberra :
ANU E Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- I. Preface, Introduction and Historical Overview. Preface / Deborah Bird Rose and Richard Davis
- Introduction: transforming the frontier in contemporary Australia / Richard Davis
- Imagining the frontier: comparative perspectives from Canada and Australia / Elizabeth Furniss
- II. Landscape and Place. The redemptive frontier: a long road to nowhere / Deborah Bird Rose
- Transcending nostalgia: pastoralist memory and staking a claim in the land / Nicholas Gill
- Water as collaborator / Jay Arthur
- You call it desert
- we used to live there / Pat Lowe
- III. Science and Nation. he platypus frontier: eggs, Aborigines and empire in 19th century Queensland / Libby Robin
- Frontiers of the future: science and progress in 20th-century Australia / Tim Sherratt
- IV. Interrupting the frontier. Eight seconds: style, performance and crisis in Aboriginal rodeo / Richard Davis
- Boxer deconstructionist / Stephen Muecke
- Absence and plenitude: appropriating the Fitzmaurice River frontier / Andrew McWilliam.
