Subverting the empire: exploration in contemporary Australian fiction

This paper examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived from exploration in order to embellish themes of personal search in their fiction. By doing so they have borrowed from the language and myths created by what was essentially an exercise in imperialism,...

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Main Author: Genoni, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Published: Australia Research Institute at Curtin University of Technology. 2001
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11997