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An Ordinary Place: Aboriginality and ‘Ordinary’ Australia in Travel Writing of the 1990s
Citation
Clarke, R, An Ordinary Place: Aboriginality and Ordinary' Australia in Travel Writing of the 1990s, The Long Journey: Exploring Travel and Travel Writing, Berghahn, MP Di Bella and B Yothers (ed), New York, USA, pp. 168-187. ISBN 9781789209358 (2020) [Revised Book Chapter]
Official URL: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/DiBellaLong
Abstract
Recent Australian travel narratives are distinguished by the way they represent Indigenous Australian cultures. Moreover, the experience of white Australian culture in recent travel writing by visiting authors like Bill Bryson (In a Sunburned Country/Down Under, 2000), Annie Caulfield (The Winners' Enclosure, 1999), and Mark McCrum (No Worries 1997) is influenced by the authors' experiences of Aboriginality and Australia's heritage of colonialism and race relations. Following a trend in contemporary travel writing to explore ordinary life, the works of Bryson, Caulfield and McCrum seek 'ordinary Australia' and discover, through encounters with Aboriginality, a place and culture far removed from either the stereotypes of tourist brochures, or the quirky characters that inhabit the soap operas and films that have advertised Australia to the rest of the world.
Item Details
Item Type: | Revised Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | Australia, travel writing, Aboriginality |
Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
Research Group: | Literary studies |
Research Field: | Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Communication |
Objective Field: | Literature |
UTAS Author: | Clarke, R (Dr Robert Clarke) |
ID Code: | 138871 |
Year Published: | 2020 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2020-05-06 |
Last Modified: | 2021-07-15 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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