Environmental Degradation, Indigenous Displacement, and Non-Indigenous Belonging: Suburbia in Tim Winton’s “Aquifer” and Liam Davison’s “Neary’s Horse”
Tim Winton and Liam Davison have written short stories that powerfully demonstrate the fact that suburbia is a complex and significant environment where the most pressing issues in Australian society are addressed. In this paper I argue that Winton’s “Aquifer” and Davison’s “Neary’s Horse” use subur...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | Tim Winton and Liam Davison have written short stories that powerfully demonstrate the fact that suburbia is a complex and significant environment where the most pressing issues in Australian society are addressed. In this paper I argue that Winton’s “Aquifer” and Davison’s “Neary’s Horse” use suburbia to explore the following crucial contemporary Australian social issues: environmental degradation, the displacement of Indigenous Australians, and non-Indigenous belonging. |
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