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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Homelands vs 'The Tropics' : Crossing the Line
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'In Australian fictions, "the tropics" feature as paradisiacal retreats, mosquito-infested war zones, touristic destinations or sites-of-last-resort on terminal pathways north. But they are also homelands and cross-cultural spaces where the nexus between Indigenous and non-indigenous people, as well as the environment, climate and geography, is distinctive ... This paper considers "the tropics" as contested sites in Australia and New Guinea, and indicates tensions between writing about or from within homelands' (p.167).

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    y separately published work icon JASAL Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature vol. 2 Margaret Harris (editor), 2003 Z1082314 2003 periodical issue Includes a special section: 'Christina Stead Centenary Essays'. 2003 pg. 167-178
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167-178 http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-63067-20090910-1633-www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/30/41.html Homelands vs 'The Tropics' : Crossing the Linesmall AustLit logo JASAL
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    Papua New Guinea,
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    Pacific Region,
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