Post-Colonial Resignification of Domestic Spatiality in Australian Children's Fiction

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  • Beverley Pennell

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl1997vol7no2art1388

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bush tradition, All We Know, postcolonialism, suburban landscape, Australian culture, Australian social conditions, multiculturalism, values, Simon French, urban sociology

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1997-07-01

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“Post-Colonial Resignification of Domestic Spatiality in Australian Children’s Fiction” (1997) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 7(2), pp. 38–48. doi:10.21153/pecl1997vol7no2art1388.

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