Elspeth Tilley, White Vanishing: Rethinking Australia’s Lost-in-the-Bush Myth
In White Vanishing: Rethinking Australia’s Lost-in-the-Bush Myth, Elspeth Tilley analyses a recurrent motif in non-Indigenous Australian literature, that of narratives of disappearance. White Vanishing seeks to deconstruct the mythic, discursive, and ideological dimensions at work in “lost-in-the-b...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | In White Vanishing: Rethinking Australia’s Lost-in-the-Bush Myth, Elspeth Tilley analyses a recurrent motif in non-Indigenous Australian literature, that of narratives of disappearance. White Vanishing seeks to deconstruct the mythic, discursive, and ideological dimensions at work in “lost-in-the-bush” episodes. Tilley points out that those who disappear are “invariably white, like the authors” (9), and therefore proposes an analysis of white disappearance narratives in non-Indigenous Austra... |
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