Dislocating the frontier : essaying the mystique of the outback /
Dislocating the frontier : essaying the mystique of the outback /
edited by Deborah Bird Rose and Richard Davis.
- 1 online resource
Includes index.
Preface, Introduction and Historical Overview. Preface / Introduction: transforming the frontier in contemporary Australia / Imagining the frontier: comparative perspectives from Canada and Australia / Landscape and Place. The redemptive frontier: a long road to nowhere / Transcending nostalgia: pastoralist memory and staking a claim in the land / Water as collaborator / You call it desert -- we used to live there / Science and Nation. he platypus frontier: eggs, Aborigines and empire in 19th century Queensland / Frontiers of the future: science and progress in 20th-century Australia / Interrupting the frontier. Eight seconds: style, performance and crisis in Aboriginal rodeo / Boxer deconstructionist / Absence and plenitude: appropriating the Fitzmaurice River frontier / Deborah Bird Rose and Richard Davis -- Richard Davis -- Elizabeth Furniss -- Deborah Bird Rose -- Nicholas Gill -- Jay Arthur -- Pat Lowe -- Libby Robin -- Tim Sherratt -- Richard Davis -- Stephen Muecke -- Andrew McWilliam. I. II. III. IV.
"The frontier is one of the most pervasive concepts underlying the production of national identity in Australia. Recently it has become a highly contested domain in which visions of nationhood are argued out through analysis of frontier conflict. Dislocating the Frontier departs from this contestation and takes a critical approach to the frontier imagination in Australia. The authors of this book work with frontier theory in comparative and unsettling modes. The essays reveal diverse aspects of frontier images and dreams - as manifested in performance, decolonising domains, language, and cross-cultural encounters. Dislocating the Frontier takes readers beyond the notion of a progressive or disastrous frontier to a more radical rethinking of the frontier imagination itself."--Publisher's description
English.
1920942378 9781920942373
JSTOR Open Access
OAPEN
Frontier and pioneer life--Australia.
History.
Humanities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Regional Studies.
Philosophy.
Historiography.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Australia--Historiography.
Australia--History--Philosophy.
Australia.
History Frontier Pioneer life Australia
Electronic books.
History.
DU97
994.0072
Includes index.
Preface, Introduction and Historical Overview. Preface / Introduction: transforming the frontier in contemporary Australia / Imagining the frontier: comparative perspectives from Canada and Australia / Landscape and Place. The redemptive frontier: a long road to nowhere / Transcending nostalgia: pastoralist memory and staking a claim in the land / Water as collaborator / You call it desert -- we used to live there / Science and Nation. he platypus frontier: eggs, Aborigines and empire in 19th century Queensland / Frontiers of the future: science and progress in 20th-century Australia / Interrupting the frontier. Eight seconds: style, performance and crisis in Aboriginal rodeo / Boxer deconstructionist / Absence and plenitude: appropriating the Fitzmaurice River frontier / Deborah Bird Rose and Richard Davis -- Richard Davis -- Elizabeth Furniss -- Deborah Bird Rose -- Nicholas Gill -- Jay Arthur -- Pat Lowe -- Libby Robin -- Tim Sherratt -- Richard Davis -- Stephen Muecke -- Andrew McWilliam. I. II. III. IV.
"The frontier is one of the most pervasive concepts underlying the production of national identity in Australia. Recently it has become a highly contested domain in which visions of nationhood are argued out through analysis of frontier conflict. Dislocating the Frontier departs from this contestation and takes a critical approach to the frontier imagination in Australia. The authors of this book work with frontier theory in comparative and unsettling modes. The essays reveal diverse aspects of frontier images and dreams - as manifested in performance, decolonising domains, language, and cross-cultural encounters. Dislocating the Frontier takes readers beyond the notion of a progressive or disastrous frontier to a more radical rethinking of the frontier imagination itself."--Publisher's description
English.
1920942378 9781920942373
JSTOR Open Access
OAPEN
Frontier and pioneer life--Australia.
History.
Humanities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Regional Studies.
Philosophy.
Historiography.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Australia--Historiography.
Australia--History--Philosophy.
Australia.
History Frontier Pioneer life Australia
Electronic books.
History.
DU97
994.0072