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Clare Johnson Clare Johnson i(A71859 works by)
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1 Making Places Out of Spaces: Reading the Spatial in Robyn Davidson's "Tracks" Clare Johnson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sharing Spaces : Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Rights 2006; (p. 100-112)
1 Bruce Chatwin's Curio Cabinet Clare Johnson , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Regenerative Spirit : Volume 2 : (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)presentations - Australian Post-Colonial Reflections 2004; (p. 160-169) Noting the effect of ethnography in 'incarcerating' oral cultures, and the effect of travel writing where writers have fashioned themselves as amateur anthropologists, the author examines Chatwin's perceptions of Indigenous people in The Songlines, seeing a misfit between the living, dynamic culture Chatwin encountered and the pristine pre-contact culture of his preconceptions.
1 Crossing the Border: Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux Clare Johnson , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 59-63)
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