This thesis employs postcolonial and hyperreal theories to investigate articulations of identity, nation and representation in contemporary Australian poetry. Informed by a comparative analysis of contemporary Latin American poetry and cultural theory (in translation), this thesis re-examines the Australian context and develops a new transnational model of Australian poetics
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Submitted to the School of Communication and Creative Arts of the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University
Degree conferred 2007
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-264)
