Filling Terra Nullius: Bony in the Deathspace

Authors

  • Kay Torney La Trobe University

Keywords:

Arthur Upfield, Bony novels, detective fiction, Aborigines

Abstract

The paper considers Arthur Upfield's representations of life in a landscape imagined as both rich in raw materials for Western culture and emptied of psychological resources, with terrifying spaces into which people and cultures disappear.

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2013-02-17

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1995: Crossing Lines: Formations of Australian Culture

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Filling Terra Nullius: Bony in the Deathspace. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 108-112. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9962