Exploring Tracks: Writing and Living Desert Space

Authors

  • Christy Collis Latrobe University

Keywords:

Robyn Davidson, desert, travel writing

Abstract

The paper discusses Robyn Davidson's travel narrative Tracks arguing that it produces a desert space that is inhabitable, active, alive and part, rather than the ancient foe, of the non-Aboriginal Australian subject.

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Published

2013-02-13

Issue

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

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Exploring Tracks: Writing and Living Desert Space. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 179-184. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9528