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"I Have Built up a Little Garden" : The Vernacular Garden, National Identity and a Sense of Place
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2001...
2001
"I Have Built up a Little Garden" : The Vernacular Garden, National Identity and a Sense of Place
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The author finds that "attention to the garden as an expression of identity has been slight ...discussion by cultural critics has focussed on the significance of the bush as the key to understanding Australian identity. In particular, the white man's ambivalent relationship to the bush.... In contrast focus of this article is on "the individual and cultural meanings that found expression through the garden and [war-time letters]" of Wifred Stephensen to her husband in internment camp in Sydney.
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115-121
"I Have Built up a Little Garden" : The Vernacular Garden, National Identity and a Sense of Place
Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Subjects:
- Bush,
- 1940-1945
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