Dislocating the Frontier : Essaying the Mystique of the Outback

The frontier is one of the most pervasive concepts underlying the production of national identity in Australia. Recently it has become a highly contested domain in which visions of nationhood are argued out through analysis of frontier conflict. DISLOCATING THE FRONTIER departs from this contestation and takes a critical approach to the frontier imagination in Australia. The authors of this book work with frontier theory in comparative and unsettling modes. The essays reveal diverse aspects of frontier images and dreams - as manifested in performance, decolonising domains, language, and cross-cultural encounters.Rose, Deborah Bird is the author of 'Dislocating the Frontier : Essaying the Mystique of the Outback', published 2005 under ISBN 9781920942366 and ISBN 192094236X.