Dislocating the Frontier

Dislocating the Frontier

Essaying the Mystique of the Outback

Edited by: Deborah Bird Rose, Richard Davis
 

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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.

Details

ISBN (print):
9781920942366
ISBN (online):
9781920942373
Publication date:
Mar 2006
Imprint:
ANU Press
DOI:
http://doi.org/10.22459/DF.03.2006
Disciplines:
Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy & Religion
Countries:
Australia

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