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100 1 _aTilley, Elspeth.
245 1 0 _aWhite vanishing :
_brethinking Australia's lost-in-the-bush myth /
_cElspeth Tilley.
246 3 0 _aRethinking Australia's lost-in-the-bush myth
264 1 _aAmsterdam ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bRodopi,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (x, 381 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English ;
_v152
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 333-357) and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary 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.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aThe 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. It has been sung in “Little Boy Lost,” brought to life on the big screen in Picnic at Hanging Rock , immortalized in Henry Lawson’s poems of lost tramps, and preserved in the history books’ tales of Leichhardt or Burke and Wills wandering in mad circles. A world-wide audience has also witnessed the many-layered and oddly strident nature of Australian disappearance symbolism in media coverage of contemporary disappearances, such as those of Azaria Chamberlain and Peter Falconio. White Vanishing offers a revealing and challenging re-examination of Australian disappearance mythology, exposing the political utility at its core. Drawing on wide-ranging examples of the white-vanishing myth, the book provides evidence that disappearance mythology encapsulates some of the most dominant and durable categories at the heart of white Australian culture, and that many of those ideas have their origin in colonial mechanisms of inequality and oppression. White Vanishing deliberately (and perhaps controversially) reminds readers that, while power is never absolute or irresistible, some narrative threads carry a particularly authoritative inheritance of ideas and power-relations through time.
650 0 _aAustralian literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_zAustralia
_xHistory and criticism.
650 7 _aAustralian literature.
_2fast
650 7 _aCivilization.
_2fast
650 7 _aDiscourse analysis, Narrative.
_2fast
650 7 _aManners and customs.
_2fast
650 7 _aMissing children in art.
_2fast
650 7 _aMissing children in literature.
_2fast
650 7 _aMissing persons.
_2fast
650 7 _aMotion pictures.
_2fast
651 0 _aAustralia
_xSocial life and customs.
651 0 _aAustralia
_xCivilization.
651 7 _aAustralia.
_2fast
655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
_2fast
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aTilley, Elspeth.
_tWhite vanishing.
_dAmsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2012
_z9042035951
_w(DLC) 2013464119
_w(OCoLC)820632286
830 0 _aCross/Cultures
_v152.
830 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004357907.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401208703
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