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- Title
An Ordinary Place: Aboriginality and 'Ordinary' Australia in Travel Writing of the 1990s.
- Authors
Clarke, Robert
- Abstract
Recent Australian travel narratives are distinguished by the way they represent Indigenous Australian cultures. Moreover, the experience of white Australian culture in recent travel writing by visiting authors like Bill Bryson (In a Sunburned Country/Down Under, 2000), Annie Caulfield (The Winners' Enclosure, 1999), and Mark McCrum (No Worries, 1997) is influenced by the authors' experiences of Aboriginality and Australia's heritage of colonialism and race relations. Following a trend in contemporary travel writing to explore ordinary life, the works of Bryson, Caulfield and McCrum seek 'ordinary Australia' and discover, through encounters with Aboriginality, a place and culture far removed from either the stereotypes of tourist brochures, or the quirky characters that inhabit the soap operas and films that have advertised Australia to the rest of the world.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; TRAVEL writing; LANGUAGE &; culture; ABORIGINAL Australian literature; RACE relations; POSTCOLONIALISM
- Publication
Journeys, 2009, Vol 10, Issue 2, p65
- ISSN
1465-2609
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3167/jys.2009.100204