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Nicholas Dunlop Nicholas Dunlop i(A87604 works by) (a.k.a. Nicholas Raymond Dunlop)
Gender: Male
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1 Suburban Space and Multicultural Identities in Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap Nicholas Dunlop , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 30 no. 1 2016; (p. 5-16) 'Since the first publication of Christos Tsiolkas's fourth novel, The Slap, in 2008, it has received a great deal of commercial and critical attention both domestically and, in more recent years, internationally. This popularity and rapid subsequent enrollment into the literary mainstream is, it could be argued, in large part due to the accessible prose and book-club compatibility of its core narrative trajectory, which traces a topical and thought-provoking depiction of conflicting sets of generational "family values," domestic politics, and explicit and implicit class conflict, the drama unfolding among an eclectic range of frequently unsympathetic yet believable, identifiable, and compelling characters. This narrative accessibility has been further emphasized by the production of two distinct episodic adaptations for television. The first, a successful ABC adaptation in 2011, preserved much of the contemporary flavor and cultural specificity of the original text and starred a number of familiar Australian actors including Jonathan LaPaglia, Essie Davis, and Melissa George. A much less successful US remake followed in 2015, featuring American actors in each of the major roles and, somewhat inexplicably, relocating the action from the suburbs to the brownstones of the New York borough of Brooklyn. Despite the geographic differences between the two adaptations, both retain the key narrative thrust of Tsiolkas's novel, charting the consequences of an act of corporal punishment - the titular "slap"—of a misbehaving small boy at a social gathering.' (Introduction)
1 A Few Words About the Role of the Cartographers : Mapping and Postcolonial Resistance in Peter Carey's 'Do You Love Me?' Nicholas Dunlop , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Spaces : The Politics Of Place In Contemporary Culture 2011; (p. 28-39)
1 ‘Thick with Coded Testaments’ : Representations of Postcolonial Space in Janette Turner Hospital’s Oyster Nicholas Dunlop , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 75-92)
1 A Subtle Revisioning of an Ancient Epic Nicholas Dunlop , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 111-112)
— Review of Ransom David Malouf , 2009 single work novel
1 A Search for Self in the Outback Nicholas Dunlop , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 72-73)
— Review of His Illegal Self Peter Carey , 2008 single work novel
1 Cartographic Conspiracies: Maps, Misinformation, and Exploitation in Peter Carey's 'American Dreams' Nicholas Dunlop , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 33-39)

Nicholas Dunlop discusses the 'difficulties inherent in transferring or compressing our own epistemologies of space and time into a static, two-dimensional model' - the map. In this context he examines Peter Carey's American Dreams as 'a useful introduction to the ways in which Carey's work frequently questions the use of the cartographic metaphor for the pursuit or maintenance of individual or hegemonic agendas'.

Dunlop concludes: 'American Dreams ... articulates the ways in which the manipulation of maps ... may affect cultural realities and how that culture perceives its spatial boundaries and the individuals within it'.
1 Malouf's New Collection Meditates on Life and Loss Nicholas Dunlop , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 21 no. 1 2007; (p. 87)
— Review of Every Move You Make David Malouf , 2006 selected work short story
1 y separately published work icon Re-Inscribing the Map : Cartographic Discourse in the Fiction of Peter Carey and David Malouf Nicholas Dunlop , Belfast : Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom , 2003 Z1180960 2003 single work thesis This thesis examines the fiction of Peter Carey and David Malouf, and offers a post-colonial reading of the way their fiction deconstructs the map as a metaphor for colonial authority.
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