Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story: Literature and the Built Environment after...

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Patrick West (Deakin University)

Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story

Literature and the Built Environment after 1900

Patrick West (Deakin University)

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Routledge
28 May 2024

Architecture; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Colonialism & imperialism; Sociology; Anthropology

Patrick West’s Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary representations of architectural space to contribute to the development of a contemporary politics of Australian post-colonialism.

West 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: Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton (1902); Kiss on the Lips and Other Stories by Katharine Susannah Prichard (1932); and White Turtle: A Collection of Short Stories by 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.

Innovative and interdisciplinary, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Literary, Architectural, and Postcolonial Studies. .

By: Patrick West (Deakin University)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 562g
ISBN: 9781032064901
ISBN 10: 1032064900
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 28 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patrick West is an Associate Professor at Deakin University. He has authored many journal articles and book chapters in fields including literary studies, creative writing, and practice-led research. His PhD is from The University of Melbourne, and he is the author of the short-story collection The World Swimmers (2011).