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Australia and the Insular Imagination : Beaches, Boarders, Boats, and Bodies
New York (City)
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009
Z1852184
2009
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criticism
'Most studies of Australia begin with the "the island-continent." The surrounding oceans are little more than a backdrop for the dramas that occur on dry land. This is the first book to turn its attention to the oceans and coastlines that make and remake the limits of Australia through events such as the arrival of asylum seekers' boats, the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Bali bombings and maritime peacekeeping missions in the Pacific. Against the imperatives of war, security, aid and disaster, various configurations of bodies, boats, borders and beaches testify to the power and the limits of Australia's insular illusion.' (Publisher's blurb)
New York (City) : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 pg. 33-51
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Subjects:
- Cloudstreet 1991 single work novel
- On the Beach 1957 single work novel
- The Tyranny of Distance : How Distance Shaped Australia's History 1966 single work non-fiction
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