Ring of Fire: Crime Fiction as a Means of Examining Projections of Australian National Identity into the Asia-Pacific Region: A Novel and Exegesis

This thesis consists of a creative component – the novel Crocodile Tears, and a theoretical essay. Both address the question: How has Australian crime fiction worked to reinforce or undermine projections of Australian national identity into the Asia-Pacific region? Crocodile Tears is a detective sto...

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Main Author: Carter, Alan
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76145
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description This thesis consists of a creative component – the novel Crocodile Tears, and a theoretical essay. Both address the question: How has Australian crime fiction worked to reinforce or undermine projections of Australian national identity into the Asia-Pacific region? Crocodile Tears is a detective story reuniting Indigenous “spook” Rory Driscoll with Detective Philip Kwong of the WA police. A retiree is murdered in suburban Perth, the trail leads to Timor Leste, and its blood-soaked history.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-761452022-08-19T01:15:06Z Ring of Fire: Crime Fiction as a Means of Examining Projections of Australian National Identity into the Asia-Pacific Region: A Novel and Exegesis Carter, Alan This thesis consists of a creative component – the novel Crocodile Tears, and a theoretical essay. Both address the question: How has Australian crime fiction worked to reinforce or undermine projections of Australian national identity into the Asia-Pacific region? Crocodile Tears is a detective story reuniting Indigenous “spook” Rory Driscoll with Detective Philip Kwong of the WA police. A retiree is murdered in suburban Perth, the trail leads to Timor Leste, and its blood-soaked history. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76145 Curtin University fulltext
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Ring of Fire: Crime Fiction as a Means of Examining Projections of Australian National Identity into the Asia-Pacific Region: A Novel and Exegesis
title Ring of Fire: Crime Fiction as a Means of Examining Projections of Australian National Identity into the Asia-Pacific Region: A Novel and Exegesis
title_full Ring of Fire: Crime Fiction as a Means of Examining Projections of Australian National Identity into the Asia-Pacific Region: A Novel and Exegesis
title_fullStr Ring of Fire: Crime Fiction as a Means of Examining Projections of Australian National Identity into the Asia-Pacific Region: A Novel and Exegesis
title_full_unstemmed Ring of Fire: Crime Fiction as a Means of Examining Projections of Australian National Identity into the Asia-Pacific Region: A Novel and Exegesis
title_short Ring of Fire: Crime Fiction as a Means of Examining Projections of Australian National Identity into the Asia-Pacific Region: A Novel and Exegesis
title_sort ring of fire: crime fiction as a means of examining projections of australian national identity into the asia-pacific region: a novel and exegesis
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76145