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Some of the material in this book has been previously published in different form.
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Epigraph: I know the names (learned painfully through homework) of several dozen capes, bays, promontories; and can trace in with a dotted line the hopeless journeys across it of all the great explorers, Sturt, Leichhardt, Burke and Wills. But what is beyond that is a mystery. It is what begins with the darkness at our back door. To big to hold in the mind! David Malouf, Johnno.
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Epigraph: To put this another way, stepping into a story or constructing a map are much the same thing; and both are like tossing a stone at a window: the cobwebby lines fan out from the point of impact in all directions at once. Janette Turner Hospital. Oyster.
Contents
- Exploration : The Australian Experience, single work criticism (p. 21-70)
- The Evolving Literature of Australian Exploration, single work criticism (p. 71-96)
- Thea Astley : Exploring the Centre, single work criticism (p. 97-144)
- Gerald Murnane : Exploring the Real Country, single work criticism (p. 145-194)
- Rodney Hall : Exploring the Land in the Mind, single work criticism (p. 195-237)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Reading the Tracker : The Antinomies of Aboriginal Ventriloquism
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 1 2017;'This paper traverses an array of theories and disciplines bearing on the representation and interpretation of Aboriginal people within the narratives of colonial Modernity and the institutions of Western scholarship descended from these narratives. While these discourses occupy contiguous spaces, their fault-lines articulate ongoing contradictions within Australian cultural discourse, and between that discourse and its material conditions. The rise of Aboriginal Literature, as such, and of global Indigenous Studies, has further illuminated the inability of classical textual analysis to describe certain forms of difference. This deficiency was demonstrated by the post-structural turn, but not, it seems, substantively understood or implemented, and present conditions demand a more urgent reconfiguration of the assumed relationships between writing, interpretation and culture.' (Introduction)
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The Riddle of the Index: Subverting the Empire and Exploration
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , January-February no. 34 2005;
— Review of Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004 multi chapter work criticism -
Internationalising Australian Studies : Non-Fiction 2004 - 2005
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 50 no. 2005; (p. 128-143) Argues a need for Australian literary studies and Australian studies in general to move beyond the national paradign that was a necessary part of their original disciplinary formation. -
Revisting Emptiness
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 180 2005; (p. 83)
— Review of Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004 multi chapter work criticism
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Revisting Emptiness
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 180 2005; (p. 83)
— Review of Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004 multi chapter work criticism -
The Riddle of the Index: Subverting the Empire and Exploration
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , January-February no. 34 2005;
— Review of Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004 multi chapter work criticism -
Internationalising Australian Studies : Non-Fiction 2004 - 2005
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 50 no. 2005; (p. 128-143) Argues a need for Australian literary studies and Australian studies in general to move beyond the national paradign that was a necessary part of their original disciplinary formation. -
Reading the Tracker : The Antinomies of Aboriginal Ventriloquism
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 1 2017;'This paper traverses an array of theories and disciplines bearing on the representation and interpretation of Aboriginal people within the narratives of colonial Modernity and the institutions of Western scholarship descended from these narratives. While these discourses occupy contiguous spaces, their fault-lines articulate ongoing contradictions within Australian cultural discourse, and between that discourse and its material conditions. The rise of Aboriginal Literature, as such, and of global Indigenous Studies, has further illuminated the inability of classical textual analysis to describe certain forms of difference. This deficiency was demonstrated by the post-structural turn, but not, it seems, substantively understood or implemented, and present conditions demand a more urgent reconfiguration of the assumed relationships between writing, interpretation and culture.' (Introduction)
