Taylor, Cheryl (2001) Shaping a regional identity: literary non-fiction and short fiction in North Queensland. Queensland Review, 8 (2). pp. 41-52.

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Abstract

Stories, anecdotes, and descriptive articles were the earliest publications, following the main wave of colonisation in the 1860s, to bring Queensland north and west of Proserpine to the attention of the national and international community. Such publications were also the main vehicle of an internal mythology: they shaped the identity of the inhabitants, diversified following settlement, and their sense of the region. The late date of settlement compared with south-eastern Australia meant that frontier experience continued both as a lived reality and as mythology well into the twentieth century. The self-containment of the region as actual and exemplary frontier was breached only with the arrival of television and university culture in the 1950s and 1960s.

Item ID:	13401
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	2049-7792
Keywords:	identity; literature
Related URLs:	Publisher http://journals.cambridge.org/action/dis...
Date Deposited:	16 Jul 2012 22:08
FoR Codes:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2005 Literary Studies > 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes:	95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9505 Understanding Past Societies > 950503 Understanding Australias Past @ 100%
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