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Treasure: An examination of the bushman/Anzac narrative in the context of shifting attitudes to the land and natural environment in Australian fiction
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Treasure: An examination of the bushman/Anzac narrative in the context of shifting attitudes to the land and natural environment in Australian fiction

Sandra Minke
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Master of Creative Arts, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2023
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https://doi.org/10.25907/00767
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Creative and professional writing Bushman Anzac landscape agriculture soil management fabulation gothic
This project explores the bushman/Anzac trope and the place of this essentially colonial, hyper-masculine figure in the context of an Australia needing to move beyond a colonial, anthropocentric engagement with the natural environment and in particular, with soil.

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