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White vanishing : rethinking Australia's lost-in-the-bush myth / Elspeth Tilley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cross/cultures ; 152.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 381 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789401208703
  • 9401208700
  • 9781283868686
  • 1283868687
  • 9789042035959
  • 9042035951
Other title:
  • Rethinking Australia's lost-in-the-bush myth
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: White vanishing.DDC classification:
  • 201.3
LOC classification:
  • BL304 .W384 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Lost-Child Trope in White Australian Narrative -- Black Displacements: The Semiosis of Indigeneity in the White-Vanishing Trope -- White Presencing: Contamination Politics and the Policing of White Subjectivities in the White-Vanishing Trope -- Temporal Trouble: Sequential Disturbance, Ambivalence, and Inscription of Linear Time in the White-Vanishing Trope -- Entering terra nullius: The White-Vanishing Trope and the Contest for Australian Space -- White Vanishing in situ: The Semiosis of Replacement in Five Australian White-Vanishing Texts -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: "The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-357) and index.

"The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture"--Provided by publisher.

Print version record.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Lost-Child Trope in White Australian Narrative -- Black Displacements: The Semiosis of Indigeneity in the White-Vanishing Trope -- White Presencing: Contamination Politics and the Policing of White Subjectivities in the White-Vanishing Trope -- Temporal Trouble: Sequential Disturbance, Ambivalence, and Inscription of Linear Time in the White-Vanishing Trope -- Entering terra nullius: The White-Vanishing Trope and the Contest for Australian Space -- White Vanishing in situ: The Semiosis of Replacement in Five Australian White-Vanishing Texts -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.

English.