Tropes of Dispossession: The Political Unconscious of 'The Land Question' in Colonial Australian Satire

Authors

  • Nancy Wright Newcastle University
  • Andrew Buck Newcastle University

Keywords:

colonial satire, land, Aboriginal land rights

Abstract

The article examines The Poor Man satire published as a serial in the Sydney Mail in 1864, not only in relation to the immediate context of its production and reception in the 1860s but also in relation to early nienteenth-century disputes about the Aborigines' land tenure.

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2013-02-11

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1997: Land and Identity: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference

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