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Sex Encounters of the Strange Kind : Forms of Postcolonial Discourse in Three Australian Novels
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2006
Sex Encounters of the Strange Kind : Forms of Postcolonial Discourse in Three Australian Novels
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'The paper focuses on scenes from three Australian novels ... . Through an analysis of the representation of sexual intercourse by the three novelists, the paper highlights the sense of strangeness associated with the postcolonial, born out of the colonists' feeling that they do not truly belong to their adopted land and must force themselves upon it. Sex, which can be an expression of love, here degenerates into lust, violence or parody. It becomes an expression of the unnerving alienation which overcomes Europeans in a postcolonial context. Sex here as a struggle for domination is a paradigm of the perverted human relations which are inherent in the postcolonial condition. In his own fashion, and through a variety of narrative modes, each of the three (male) novelists illustrates the unbearable strangeness of being in an alien land.' (47)
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Sex Encounters of the Strange Kind : Forms of Postcolonial Discourse in Three Australian Novels
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197-210
Sex Encounters of the Strange Kind : Forms of Postcolonial Discourse in Three Australian Novels
Subjects:
- Bring Larks and Heroes 1967 single work novel
- Gould's Book of Fish : A Novel in Twelve Fish 2001 single work novel
- Sweet Water : Stolen Land 1993 single work novel
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