Jacqueline Dutton Jacqueline Dutton i(A126521 works by)
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1 Le Rêve tasmanien : Utopia at the End of the Earth Jacqueline Dutton , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Travel Writing , vol. 20 no. 1 2016; (p. 84-99)

'Tasmania holds a special place in the French imaginary, as a symbol of radical otherness, due in no small part to its location far away from France, at the end of the earth. This essay traces the development of Tasmania as both a place of utopian desire and a site of dystopian suffering in the French imaginary, from its earliest associations with Terra Australis Incognita through the first explorers’ landings to today’s interpretations of the island. Within this continuum of utopian travel tales, the essay presents a singular narrative, La Grenouille dans le billabong [A Frog in the Billabong] by Marie-Paule Leroux published in 2004, as an example of how Tasmania remains a utopian construction for the French traveller to the island. Leroux’s intercultural adventure is analysed according to common tropes of utopian writing and thinking, linked to place, people and politics, to demonstrate the contemporary currency of le rêve tasmanien [the Tasmanian dream] for the French.'

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1 Washed up in Rovinj Jacqueline Dutton , 2011 single work prose travel
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 70 no. 2 2011; (p. 83-90)
1 Begauled Jacqueline Dutton , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , December vol. 4 no. 11 2009; (p. 20) Jacqueline Dutton traces the succession of French writing about Australia. She begins with the fictional travel writings and scientific studies stemming from the time of early French exploration of the Great South Land and continues through to the anthropology, education and journalism output of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
1 University's E-Press Recasts Publishing Model Jacqueline Dutton , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 November 2009; (p. 30)
1 Loss in a Far-Off World Jacqueline Dutton , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 August 2009; (p. 16)
1 Imagining Australia : Avatars of the Utopian Paradigm in French Writings on Australia Jacqueline Dutton , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Geo/graphies : Mapping the Imagination in French and Francophone Literature and Film 2003; (p. 191-208)

'Prior to its discovery, Australia was a favourite setting for imaginary ideal societies in classical French utopian literature. Despite historical experience and empirical evidence, the utopian paradigm has persisted in French writings on Australia throughout the period of colonisation and settlement and remains relevant in contemporary representations of this cross-cultural corpus. This study seeks to demonstrate the ongoing importance of the utopian paradigm in contemporary French writings on Australia through criteriological and intertextual analyses. A comparison of current representations of utopia with those apparent in previous descriptions of the antipodes reveals some unexpected avatars of the utopian paradigm in French writings on Australia.'

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