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'Australia. Terra Australis Incognita. Even before its official finding by Captain James Cook in 1770, the “land down under” already circulated in the European imagination. The giant mass of land necessary to balance a flat Earth (as antipodal to Europe) could only be home to a great many monstrous fauna and flora, as it was also the cultural counterpart to Europe. However, giant one-eyed monsters and sea serpents were not found by Captain Cook upon his arrival on Botany Bay, now part of Sydney. By declaring the land terra nullius, Cook ignored the many Aboriginal communities that had lived in Australia for over 75,000 years and such act has given way to one of the core elements in the development of Australian culture and history: the relationship between whites and Aborigines in the development of the nation.' (Introduction)
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https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/2175-8026.2016v69n2p9/31854
New Cultural Landscapes : Australian Narratives in Literature and Film
Ilha Do Desterro : A Journal of English Language
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- Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009 anthology correspondence diary drama essay extract poetry prose short story
- Kangaroo 1819 single work poetry
- Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature 2008 anthology poetry drama prose correspondence criticism extract
- The Fatal Shore : A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 1987 single work non-fiction
- Literature to 1900 2009 single work criticism
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