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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| author | Carter, Alan |
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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 |
| spellingShingle | Carter, Alan 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 |