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'British science-fiction family television program Doctor Who has always had a strong fan-base in Australia. This essay explores the ways in which certain of those Australian fans use the shorter forms of ancillary Doctor Who fiction to question the construction and promulgation of Australian national identity. By dropping the Doctor into significant crisis points in Australian history – from Gallipoli to the Port Arthur massacre – these authors literalize and question the process of constructing national identity, drawing to the surface the troubled and often negated role that race plays in ‘Australianness’.' (Author's abstract)
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The Doctor is In (the Antipodes) : Doctor Who Short Fiction and Australian National Identity
Subjects:
- Home Fires 2005 single work short story
- Direct Action 2006 single work short story
- Evitability 2008 single work short story
- Doctor Who : The New Adventures 1991 series - publisher
- Hymn of the City 2003 single work short story
- Virgin Lands 2002 single work short story
- The Bushranger's Story 2004 single work short story
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