Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story - Literature and the Built Environment After 1900

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.

List of contents

1. Prolegomenon: Place and Space, Architecture and the Built Environment, and the Short Story's Spatial Potential-Experiments in Spatiality for Post-colonial (De-)Occupation 2. Huts, Distant Power, and the Distances Between Spatially Formed Places: Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton (1902) 3. Non-Indigenous and Indigenous Heterotopias, Ordered and Dis-Ordered Spaces, Occupation and De-Occupation: Kiss on the Lips and Other Stories by Katharine Susannah Prichard (1932) 4. Paper Architecture: Materiality, Peritext, Habitus, and (Inside-Outside) Politics-White Turtle: A Collection of Short Stories by Merlinda Bobis (1999). 5. Wind-Up

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Patrick (Deakin University) West, West Patrick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032064925
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3206492-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Ethnic Studies, Architecture, Sociology, English, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, ARCHITECTURE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Architectures;Australian Short Story;Literature, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity