Terra nullius: A possessed landscape

Terra nullius: A possessed landscape

Australia has long been described as an empty space and a site of monstrous inversion. As is well known, the British colonised the Australian continent under the legal dictum of terra nullius—land belonging to no one. This fiction conceals the ancient history of prior settlement by Indigenous Austra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Costantino, Thea
Other Authors: Rob Fisher
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Inter-Disciplinary.Net 2012
Subjects:
film
post-colonialism
Gothic
colonialism
uncanny
literature
Australia
visual art
landscape
Online Access:http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monstrous-geographies/project-archives/1st/session-10-monstrous-empire-australia/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12843

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http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monstrous-geographies/project-archives/1st/session-10-monstrous-empire-australia/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12843

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