{"product_id":"architectures-of-occupation-in-the-australian-short-story","title":"Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatrick West’s \u003ci\u003eArchitectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story \u003c\/i\u003ecultivates the potential for literary representations of architectural space to contribute to the development of a contemporary politics of Australian post-colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWest argues that the predominance of tropes of place within cultural and critical expressions of Australian post-colonialism should be re-balanced through attention to spatial strategies of anti-colonial power. To elaborate the raw material of such strategies, West develops interdisciplinary close readings of keynote stories within three female-authored, pan-twentieth century, Australian short-story collections: \u003ci\u003eBush Studies \u003c\/i\u003eby Barbara Baynton (1902); \u003ci\u003eKiss on the Lips and Other Stories \u003c\/i\u003eby Katharine Susannah Prichard (1932); and \u003ci\u003eWhite Turtle: A Collection of Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eby Merlinda Bobis (1999). The capacity of the short-story form to prompt creative and politically germinal engagements with species of space associated with architecture and buildings is underscored. Relatedly, West argues that the recent resurgence of binary thought—on local, national, and international scales—occasions an approach to the short-story collections shaped by binary relationships like a dichotomy of inside and outside. Concluding his argument, West connects the literary and architectural critiques of the story collections to the wicked problem, linked to ongoing colonial violences, of improving Australian Indigenous housing outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInnovative and interdisciplinary, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Literary, Architectural, and Postcolonial Studies. .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55702779691352,"sku":"9781032064925","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032064925.jpg?v=1770528620","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/architectures-of-occupation-in-the-australian-short-story","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}