dc.contributor.author | McKay, Belinda | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-14T04:47:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-12-14T04:47:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1321-8166 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/qre.2017.31 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/355183 | |
dc.description.abstract | Vance Palmer's The Passage (1930) and Eleanor Dark's Lantana Lane (1959) bracket the period during which the narrow coastal strip north of Brisbane from the Pumicestone Passage to the Noosa River was being transformed economically and culturally into what we know today as the Sunshine Coast. In the 1920s and 1950s respectively, Palmer and Dark participated in changing the region, and as established writers they reflected upon that metamorphosis in literary works that reached a national audience at a time when Brisbane's near north coast was off the beaten track for professional writers. But for millennia prior to colonisation, this area had sustained a vibrant economy and culture centred on bunyas from the mountains and seafood from the coast. By the late nineteenth century, this vast economic and cultural network had been radically disrupted by the incursions of timber-getters and pastoralists, and many of the traditional owners who had survived the frontier wars had been removed. While the inscription of a new identity on the region in the twentieth century was driven by the real estate speculators who coined the name ‘Sunshine Coast’, Palmer in The Passage and Dark in Lantana Lane share a more cooperative, sustainable, egalitarian and anti-imperialist vision for the region, with some indirect and ambiguous debts to its Aboriginal past. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 202 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 214 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 2 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Queensland Review | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 24 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Historical Studies | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Other History and Archaeology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | History and Philosophy of Specific Fields | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 200502 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 2103 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 2199 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 2202 | |
dc.title | The Art of Living: Vance Palmer and Eleanor Dark on the Sunshine Coast | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dcterms.license | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences | |
gro.rights.copyright | © The Author(s) 2017. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. | |
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gro.griffith.author | McKay, Belinda J. | |