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‘Turning a Place into a Field' : Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire and Cold War Area Studies
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‘Turning a Place into a Field' : Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire and Cold War Area Studies
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''It has been one of the enduring ironies of the study of Asia', writes Harry Harootunian, 'that Asia itself, as an object, simply doesn't exist'. In Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies (2002), Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi observe that 'Historically, area studies programs...originated in the immediate post-World War II era and sought to meet the necessity of gathering and providing information about the enemy'. This was made possible by large infusions of money from a range of institutions, including private corporations, scholarly organisations and government agencies. Assisted by US military occupation, 'places' like Japan were turned into social laboratories where specialists from Europe, the US and Australia came to do field work. 'Turning a place into a field' was symptomatic of the orientalism endemic to Cold War area studies. In this chapter, I examine expatriate Australian writer Shirley Hazzard's novel The Great Fire (2003) in the context of Cold War orientalism.' (pp. 265-266)
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‘Turning a Place into a Field' : Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire and Cold War Area Studies
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- The Great Fire 2003 single work novel
- Shirley Hazzard’s Australia : Belated Reading and Cultural Mobility 2010 single work criticism
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