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'This article contributes to discussions about the significance of fences in the
Australian social imaginary. It undertakes a historical and intertextual reading of
eight short stories that take the fence as their titular symbol, and explores how the
fence story is rewritten at various moments of change in twentieth-century
Australia. Developments in narrative form and representation are related to
changes in the cultural and political contexts, through a critical engagement with
Iser's argument that the institution of literature works through a 'constant
crossing of the boundary between the real and the imaginary'. As an Australian
icon, the fence image illustrates the continuing power of settler discourse;
however, the literary reworkings of the fence story disclose new visions of identity
and otherness.' (Author's abstract)
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The Fence in Australian Short Fiction : 'A Constant Crossing of Boundaries'?
Australian Cultural History
Subjects:
- At Home in Australia 2003 single work prose
- Fencing in the Frontier 2010 single work criticism
- Billjim's Back Fence 1911 single work short story
- Australian Short Fiction : A History 2002 multi chapter work criticism
- Breaker's Mate : Will Ogilvie in Australia 1996 selected work poetry short story criticism
- The Boundary Fence 1914 single work short story
- Fences 1948 single work short story
- Sydney or the Bush 1948 selected work short story
- The Fence 1944 single work short story
- Peter Cowan's Landscapes of Silence 1991 single work criticism
- Empty Streets and Lonely Beaches : Peter Cowan's Moral Universe 1992 single work criticism
- Australians Have a Word for It : Short Stories from Down Under 1964 anthology short story
- The Wire Fences of Jarrabin 1964 single work short story
- The Shifting Heart 1958 single work correspondence
- Fence 1962 single work poetry
- Home and Away : Australian Stories of Belonging and Alienation 2000 anthology short story
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