Dislocating the Frontier: Essaying the Mystique of the OutbackDeborah Bird Rose, Richard Davis Thefrontier is one of the most pervasive concepts underlying the production ofnational identity in Australia. Recently it has become a highly contesteddomain in which visions of nationhood are argued out through analysis offrontier conflict. Dislocating the Frontier departsfrom this contestation and takes a critical approach to the frontierimagination in Australia. The authors of this book work with frontier theoryin comparative and unsettling modes. The essays reveal diverse aspects offrontier images and dreams - as manifested in performance, decolonisingdomains, language, and cross-cultural encounters. Dislocating the Frontier takes readers beyond the notion of a progressive or disastrousfrontier to a more radical rethinking of the frontier imagination itself. |