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1 Paranoid Projections : Australian Novels of Asian Invasion Catriona Ross , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 23 no. 1 2009; (p. 11-16)

'The October 9, 2000 edition of the Australian News magazine the Bulletin features a special report, entitled 'The Gathering Storm,' which details predictions of how catastrophic, climate-change driven upheavals across Asia could see the inundation of Australia's vulnerable north with environmental refugees. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty foresees that lack of rain, rising sea levels, pandemic disease, and failing crops may lead to vast movements of populations a people 'in their millions' could begin to look for land and they'll cross oceans and borders to do it.'
1 y separately published work icon Unsettled Imaginings : Australian Novels of Asian Invasion Catriona Ross , Tasmania : University of Tasmania , 2008 18545586 2008 single work thesis 'This thesis examines novels that depict an imaginary invasion of Australia by an Asian country. It argues that novels of Asian invasion constitute a distinct body of formulaic literature - a subgenre - within the field of Australian popular fiction. This study undertakes a formative mapping of the subgenre of Asian invasion novels in three ways. It assembles the corpus of texts and provides an annotated bibliography. It delineates the generic form and content of the novels and monitors the resilience and evolution of the subgenre through changing historical and cultural contexts. It considers the ideological implications of the Asian invasion narrative through readings of race, nation and gender.' (Abstract introduction)
1 Prolonged Symptoms of Cultural Anxiety : The Persistence of Narratives of Asian Invasion within Multicultural Australia Catriona Ross , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 5 2006; (p. 86-99)

'In this paper, recent invasion novels by John Marsden provide a case study for examining the subtextual configurations of meaning that underlie the proposition of Asian threat and allow insight into the historical and cultural unconscious of an anxious settler nation.' (p.86)

Ross argues that 'the persistence of the Asian invasion narrative indicates white Australia's fears for security of tenure ... and demonstrates the underlying paranoia that a nation founded on invasion could possibly be lost by invasion.'
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