Hinterland Australian Gothic Subtropical Excess Postcolonial Ecocriticism
South East Queensland’s subtropical hinterlands—the mountainous, forested country lying between the cities of the coast and the Great Dividing Range—are sites of a regional variation of Australian Gothic. Hinterland Gothic draws its atmosphere and metaphors from the specificities of regional landscapes, climate, and histories.In works by Eleanor Dark, Judith Wright, Janette Turner Hospital, and Inga Simpson, South East Queensland’s Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast hinterlands are represented as Gothic regions “beyond the visible and known” (“Hinterland” in Oxford Dictionaries Online 2019), where the subtropical climate gives rise to an unruly, excessive nature.In Gothic literature, excess is related to the unspeakable or the repressed. Bringing Gothic, postcolonial, and ecocritical perspectives to bear on the literature of South East Queensland’s hinterlands reveals a preoccupation with the regions’ repressed histories of colonial violence, which are written on the landscape through Gothic metaphors.
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Title
Hinterland Gothic: Subtropical Excess in the Literature of South East Queensland
Creators
Emma Doolan (Author) - Southern Cross University
Publication Details
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, Vol.18(1), pp.174-191
Publisher
James Cook University
Identifiers
991012894599602368
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2019 eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Academic Unit
Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Humanities; School of Arts and Social Sciences
Language
English
Resource Type
Journal article
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Hinterland Gothic: Subtropical Excess
Hinterland Gothic: Subtropical Excess in the Literature of South East Queensland