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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    The Production of Paradise. The role of travel literature in the discursive construction of the South Sea as utopia on Earth
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project sets out to understand how travel literature translates and mediates accounts from and of the world – from one local setting to another, and over time. It is, more specifically, concerned with Western travel writers’ persistent and...

    Fields of research Australian/Oceanian literature,  World Literature,  travel literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Paradise Lost - Utopia Reclaimed: Writing the Wrongs of French Exploration in the Antipodes
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When France's attempts to claim regions of Australia failed, the dream of an Antipodean paradise was lost. In its breach rose a new utopian frontier. Paradoxically, this anticipatory perspective revives a form of utopianism previously established in...

    Fields of research French literature,  Australian/Oceanian literature,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019