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Shaping a Regional Identity : Literary Non-Fiction and Short Fiction in North Queensland
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2001
Shaping a Regional Identity : Literary Non-Fiction and Short Fiction in North Queensland
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'Stories, anecdotes, and descriptive articles were the earliest publications, following the main wave of colonisation in the 1860s, to bring Queensland north and west of Proserpine to the attention of the national and international community. Such publications were also the main vehicle of an internal mythology: they shaped the identity of the inhabitants, diversified following settlement, and their sense of the region. The late date of settlement compared with south-eastern Australia meant that frontier experience continued both as lived reality and as mythology well into the twentieth century. The self-containment of the region as actual and exemplary frontier was breached only with the arrival of television and university culture in the 1950s and 1960s.' (Introduction)
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Shaping a Regional Identity : Literary Non-Fiction and Short Fiction in North Queensland
Queensland Review
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