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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 The Doctor is In (the Antipodes) : Doctor Who Short Fiction and Australian National Identity
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'British science-fiction family television program Doctor Who has always had a strong fan-base in Australia. This essay explores the ways in which certain of those Australian fans use the shorter forms of ancillary Doctor Who fiction to question the construction and promulgation of Australian national identity. By dropping the Doctor into significant crisis points in Australian history – from Gallipoli to the Port Arthur massacre – these authors literalize and question the process of constructing national identity, drawing to the surface the troubled and often negated role that race plays in ‘Australianness’.' (Author's abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Doctor Who and Race Lindy Orthia (editor), Chicago Bristol : Intellect , 2013 6351289 2013 anthology criticism Chicago Bristol : Intellect , 2013 pg. 213-230
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