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Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature
Adelaide
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ATF Press
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2009
Z1624534
2009
multi chapter work
criticism
Despite the stereotype of post-colonial Australian society as secular and irreligious, a radical concept of the sacred, located in place, has pervaded its literature. Australian writers again and again break away from received, orthodox notions of religious experience, imagining a transformed post-colonial sacred in Australia.
For Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies 'place' has had a particularly post-colonial function in contesting imperial cultural forms, including received forms of religion. 'Horizonal' is the concept of space dominated by an apparently infinite horizon. This book reveals, in its discussion of contemporary literature, an Australian sacred emerging from the material, proximate and intimate experiences of the everyday. -- Back cover.
Adelaide : ATF Press , 2009 pg. 141-163
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Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature
Adelaide
:
ATF Press
,
2009
Z1624534
2009
multi chapter work
criticism
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- The Moving Image 1945 single work poetry
- Because I was Invited 1975 selected work prose criticism biography
- The Crane Is My Neighbour 1938 single work poetry
- Bullocky 1944 single work poetry
- River Bend 1985 single work poetry
- Australia 1970 1971 single work poetry
- South of My Days 1945 single work poetry
- A Document 1966 single work poetry
- Two Dreamtimes 1973 single work poetry
- At Cooloolah 1954 single work poetry