White vanishing : rethinking Australia's lost-in-the-bush myth /

"The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tilley, Elspeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2012.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 152.
Temas:
Australian literature > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Australia > History and criticism.
Missing children in literature.
Missing children in art.
Missing persons > Australia.
Discourse analysis, Narrative > Australia.
Littérature australienne > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > Australie > Histoire et critique.
Personnes disparues > Australie.
Discours narratif > Australie.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Australian literature
Civilization
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Manners and customs
Missing children in art
Missing children in literature
Missing persons
Motion pictures
Australia > Social life and customs.
Australia > Civilization.
Australie > Mœurs et coutumes.
Australie > Civilisation.
Australia
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • The Lost-Child Trope in White Australian Narrative
  • Black Displacements: The Semiosis of Indigeneity in the White-Vanishing Trope
  • White Presencing: Contamination Politics and the Policing of White Subjectivities in the White-Vanishing Trope
  • Temporal Trouble: Sequential Disturbance, Ambivalence, and Inscription of Linear Time in the White-Vanishing Trope
  • Entering terra nullius: The White-Vanishing Trope and the Contest for Australian Space
  • White Vanishing in situ: The Semiosis of Replacement in Five Australian White-Vanishing Texts
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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