South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia

Bearings...An Introduction 1. The Middle Distance...or, The Printed World 2. Letters from Far-off Lands Two Studies of Writing in Exile I. Each Wild Idea as It Presents Itself A Commentary on Thomas WatlingOs Letters from an Exile at Botany-Bay II. What Do I Know? The Alien Subject in the Fugitive Films of Chris Marker 3. The Nature of a Nation Landscape in Australian Feature Films 4. Geography and Gender I. Forecast II. Precipitation 5. Beyond the Compass of Words Edgar Allan Poe, the South Seas, and A Manuscript Found in a Battle 6. The Keen Historic Spasm Rhetorical Uses for the Archival Photograph 7. Yarning 8. Yondering A Reading of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 9. Remembering Art 10. Elsewhere, Today. 2 False Starts about 4 Australian Artists Writing around the work of Jacky Redgate, Robyn Stacey, Jeff Gibson, and Anne Azhalka I. Elsewhere II. Today 11. Paranoid Critical Methods A Response to Peter FullerOs The Australian Scapegoal: Towards an Anitpodean Aesthetic 12. The Body on the Bed Notes Index