Dislocating the frontier : essaying the mystique of the outback /

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Imprint:	Canberra : ANU E Press, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia. Philosophy. Historiography. Frontier and pioneer life. Australia -- Historiography. Australia -- History -- Philosophy. Australia. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12830744

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Other authors / contributors:	Rose, Deborah Bird. Davis, Richard, 1965-
ISBN:	1920942378 9781920942373
Notes:	Includes index. English.
Summary:	"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

Table of Contents:

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.

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