Too Far Everywhere: The Romantic Heroine in Nineteenth-century AustraliaThe deliberate exclusion of women's romances resulted in the development of an Australian culture based on a masculine bush ethos. In recovering previously neglected women's texts, Giles argues for a more inclusive and heterogeneous view. |
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Page 114
... Aboriginal mythology is fundamentally attached to the land , whose various geographical formations represent important moments in the creation process of " the dreaming . " Stella claims Aborigines ' stories are better than those of the ...
... Aboriginal mythology is fundamentally attached to the land , whose various geographical formations represent important moments in the creation process of " the dreaming . " Stella claims Aborigines ' stories are better than those of the ...
Page 115
... Aboriginal myth ; through Ted's gift of a " kooditcha shoe " she becomes implicated in an Aboriginal curse . Ted brings her the gift early in the narrative , and she is quick to try it on , although she finds it bizarre . It is a shoe ...
... Aboriginal myth ; through Ted's gift of a " kooditcha shoe " she becomes implicated in an Aboriginal curse . Ted brings her the gift early in the narrative , and she is quick to try it on , although she finds it bizarre . It is a shoe ...
Page 166
... Aborigines of her fictional territory are to an extent in contact with the white settlers , they are used to represent humans in a state of nature , resistant to , and in conflict with , white culture , par- ticularly the young Aboriginal ...
... Aborigines of her fictional territory are to an extent in contact with the white settlers , they are used to represent humans in a state of nature , resistant to , and in conflict with , white culture , par- ticularly the young Aboriginal ...
Contents
Recovering the heroine | 1 |
Colonial Migration | 9 |
Making a New Space | 23 |
Copyright | |
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