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Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature
Adelaide
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ATF Press
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2009
Z1624534
2009
multi chapter work
criticism
Despite the stereotype of post-colonial Australian society as secular and irreligious, a radical concept of the sacred, located in place, has pervaded its literature. Australian writers again and again break away from received, orthodox notions of religious experience, imagining a transformed post-colonial sacred in Australia.
For Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies 'place' has had a particularly post-colonial function in contesting imperial cultural forms, including received forms of religion. 'Horizonal' is the concept of space dominated by an apparently infinite horizon. This book reveals, in its discussion of contemporary literature, an Australian sacred emerging from the material, proximate and intimate experiences of the everyday. -- Back cover.
Adelaide : ATF Press , 2009 pg. 105-139
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Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature
Adelaide
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ATF Press
,
2009
Z1624534
2009
multi chapter work
criticism
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- In the Twentieth Century 1967 single work poetry
- Envoi for a Book of Poems 1940 single work poetry
- Captain Quiros : A Poem 1964 single work poetry
- The End of Modernity 1960 single work correspondence
- The Hazard and the Gift 1971 single work poetry
- Time Given : Poems 1970-1976 1976 selected work poetry