The land sets human values in the subversive perspective of otherness, it queries the myth of belonging; it is, in short, a generator not of sameness but of difference. Ivor Indyk purues the thesis in connection with novelists like Vance Palmer, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Frank Dalby Davison, David Malouf, Eleanor Dark and Kylie Tennant. -- Livio Dobrez - introduction (edited)