Title: South of the West : postcolonialism and the narrative construction of Australia /
Authors: Gibson, Ross, 1956-
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Arts Australia.; Postcolonialism Australia.; Australia Civilization.
Contents: 1. The Middle Distance...or, The Printed World -- 2. Letters from Far-off Lands: Two Studies of Writing in Exile. I. "Each Wild Idea as It Presents Itself": A Commentary on Thomas Watling's Letters from an Exile at Botany-Bay. II. "What Do I Know?": The "Alien" Subject in the Fugitive Films of Chris Marker -- 3. The Nature of a Nation: Landscape in Australian Feature Films -- 4. Geography and Gender. I. Forecast. II. Precipitation -- 5. Beyond the Compass of Words: Edgar Allan Poe, the South Seas, and "A Manuscript Found in a Bottle" -- 6. The Keen Historic Spasm: Rhetorical Uses for the Archival Photograph -- 7. Yarning -- 8. Yondering: A Reading of MAD MAX Beyond Thunderdome -- 9. Remembering Art -- 10. Elsewhere, Today. 2 False Starts about 4 Australian Artists Writing around the Work of Jacky Redgate, Robyn Stacey, Jeff Gibson, and Anne Zahalka. I. Elsewhere. II. Today.