Includes index.

I. Preface, Introduction and Historical Overview. Preface / Deborah Bird Rose and Richard Davis -- Introduction: transforming the frontier in contemporary Australia / Richard Davis -- Imagining the frontier: comparative perspectives from Canada and Australia / Elizabeth Furniss -- II. Landscape and Place. The redemptive frontier: a long road to nowhere / Deborah Bird Rose -- Transcending nostalgia: pastoralist memory and staking a claim in the land / Nicholas Gill -- Water as collaborator / Jay Arthur -- You call it desert -- we used to live there / Pat Lowe -- III. Science and Nation. he platypus frontier: eggs, Aborigines and empire in 19th century Queensland / Libby Robin -- Frontiers of the future: science and progress in 20th-century Australia / Tim Sherratt -- IV. Interrupting the frontier. Eight seconds: style, performance and crisis in Aboriginal rodeo / Richard Davis -- Boxer deconstructionist / Stephen Muecke -- Absence and plenitude: appropriating the Fitzmaurice River frontier / Andrew McWilliam.

"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.

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