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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story : Literature and the Built Environment After 1900
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'Patrick West’s Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary representations of architectural space to contribute to the development of a contemporary politics of Australian post-colonialism.

'West argues that the predominance of tropes of place within cultural and critical expressions of Australian post-colonialism should be re-balanced through attention to spatial strategies of anti-colonial power. To elaborate the raw material of such strategies, West develops interdisciplinary close readings of keynote stories within three, female-authored, pan-twentieth century, Australian short-story collections: Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton (1902); Kiss on the Lips and Other Stories by Katharine Susannah Prichard (1932); and, White Turtle: A Collection of Short Stories by Merlinda Bobis (1999). The capacity of the short-story form to prompt creative and politically germinal engagements with species of space associated with architecture and buildings is underscored. Relatedly, West argues that the recent resurgence of binary thought—on local, national, and international scales—occasions an approach to the short-story collections shaped by binary relationships like a dichotomy of inside and outside. Concluding his argument, West connects the literary and architectural critiques of the story collections to the wicked problem, linked to ongoing colonial violences, of improving Australian Indigenous housing outcomes.

'Innovative and interdisciplinary, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Literary, Architectural and Postcolonial Studies. .' (Publication summary)

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  • Table of Contents: 

    1. Prolegomenon. 2. Huts, Distant Power, and the Distances Between Spatially Formed Places—Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton (1902) 3. Non-Indigenous and Indigenous Heterotopias, Ordered and Dis-Ordered Spaces, Occupation and De-Occupation—Kiss on the Lips and Other Stories by Katharine Susannah Prichard (1932) 4. Paper Architecture—Materiality, Peritext, Habitus, and (Inside-Outside) Politics—White Turtle by Merlinda Bobis (1999). 5. Wind-Up

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Routledge ,
      2024 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 240p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 28 May 2024
      ISBN: 9781032064901
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