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Tom and Zoe Drewe, like thousands of others, are "going around Australia". Their journey, begun in certainty and on their terms, takes on its own momentum and compulsions, until they are driven as much as driving, and increasingly acted upon by the power and histories of the land whose surface they cross. Compelling, moving, disturbing, this important and timely novel confronts the dark side of the Australian psyche, exploring what it means to be an Australian, and the nature of belonging.
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Dedication: For Stephen, Ann and Mark.
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Epigraph: Land of the inmost heart, searching for / which Men roam the earth ... James McAuley, 'Captain Quiros'.
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Works about this Work
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Reconfiguring Australia's Literary Canon : Antipodean Cultural Tectonics
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 34 no. 1 2011; (p. 77-91) 'This paper shows how an Australian community imagined by the European continent has evolved to become more inclusive of otherness, be it in the form of non-Anglo-Australian cultures, Australian regional cultures, or a significant Indigenous culture intimately linked to the land. In this process, which is comparable to tectonic shifts, some Australian authors have attempted, within a 21st-century global village, to map intercultural spaces that reveal a pervasive sense of emptiness and the uncanny.' (Author's abstract)
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'The Myth of Settlement' : Grey Nomads, Papunya Tula and Frontier Violence in Pat Jacobs' Going Inland
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Frontier Skirmishes : Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia after 1992 2010; (p. 141-152) -
Introduction : The Sacred in Australian Literary Culture
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 1-31) -
Jacobs' Novel Back on the Road Again
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 11 September 2005; (p. 14)
— Review of Going Inland 1998 single work novel -
Campervan Trip to the Margins
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Tain , March no. 2 2000; (p. 15)
— Review of Going Inland 1998 single work novel
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Jacobs' Novel Back on the Road Again
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 11 September 2005; (p. 14)
— Review of Going Inland 1998 single work novel -
Campervan Trip to the Margins
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Tain , March no. 2 2000; (p. 15)
— Review of Going Inland 1998 single work novel -
Distinctive Taste of Creole Culture
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 5 April 1998; (p. 22)
— Review of Going Inland 1998 single work novel -
Old Broome's Human Sweep
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 27 April 1998; (p. 14)
— Review of Going Inland 1998 single work novel ; The Drowning Dream 1998 single work novel -
Untitled
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 203 1998; (p. 46)
— Review of Going Inland 1998 single work novel -
Writer of the Desert up for Richest Award
1999
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 30 November 1999; -
Introduction : The Sacred in Australian Literary Culture
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 1-31) -
'The Myth of Settlement' : Grey Nomads, Papunya Tula and Frontier Violence in Pat Jacobs' Going Inland
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Frontier Skirmishes : Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia after 1992 2010; (p. 141-152) -
Reconfiguring Australia's Literary Canon : Antipodean Cultural Tectonics
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 34 no. 1 2011; (p. 77-91) 'This paper shows how an Australian community imagined by the European continent has evolved to become more inclusive of otherness, be it in the form of non-Anglo-Australian cultures, Australian regional cultures, or a significant Indigenous culture intimately linked to the land. In this process, which is comparable to tectonic shifts, some Australian authors have attempted, within a 21st-century global village, to map intercultural spaces that reveal a pervasive sense of emptiness and the uncanny.' (Author's abstract)
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Unknown Up for Rich Literary Prize
1999
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 November 1999; (p. 2)
Awards
- 2000 nominated International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 1998 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction
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