'The Poetry of the Earth is Never Dead': Australia's Road Writing

Falconer, DC

'The Poetry of the Earth is Never Dead': Australia's Road Writing

Falconer, DC

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Publisher:: Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of the Association for the study of Australian ..., 2009, 1, 2009 (Special Is), pp. 1 - 16
Issue Date:: 2009-01

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dc.contributor.author	Falconer, DC https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7531-1781	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of the Association for the study of Australian ..., 2009, 1, 2009 (Special Is), pp. 1 - 16	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1447-8986	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This article discusses the process of editing The Australian Book of the Road. It uses William Hays An Australian Rip Van Winkle as an exemplary Australian road text. With its diffuse sense of hauntedness, multiple time-warps, and eerie appropriation of northern hemisphere literary texts, Hays story offers a suggestive frame for reflecting on our relationship with the road in Australia and the way it is figured in our writing; to consider the road not only as a material artefact represented by our road texts but a set of cultural traditions and tropes. Its layered hauntings offer paths to unpacking of the odd sense of unease that permeates so many of these road stories. Using road writing (my own term) as a strategic generic category through which disparate works can be interpreted, this paper will consider them as instances of spatial history, following Paul Carter, opposed to more triumphalist literary traditions. It will also, finally, consider the Australian road within a global context; in particular, the strategic ways in which these stories play with strategies of adaptation.	en_US
dc.publisher	Association for the Study of Australian Literature	en_US
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dc.title	'The Poetry of the Earth is Never Dead': Australia's Road Writing	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
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Abstract:

This article discusses the process of editing The Australian Book of the Road. It uses William Hays An Australian Rip Van Winkle as an exemplary Australian road text. With its diffuse sense of hauntedness, multiple time-warps, and eerie appropriation of northern hemisphere literary texts, Hays story offers a suggestive frame for reflecting on our relationship with the road in Australia and the way it is figured in our writing; to consider the road not only as a material artefact represented by our road texts but a set of cultural traditions and tropes. Its layered hauntings offer paths to unpacking of the odd sense of unease that permeates so many of these road stories. Using road writing (my own term) as a strategic generic category through which disparate works can be interpreted, this paper will consider them as instances of spatial history, following Paul Carter, opposed to more triumphalist literary traditions. It will also, finally, consider the Australian road within a global context; in particular, the strategic ways in which these stories play with strategies of adaptation.

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