Women's life and suffering in the Australian Bush. Challenging bush romanticism and the bushman myth in Barbara Baynton's "Bush Studies"


Seminar Paper, 2015

20 Pages, Grade: 2.0


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Table of Contents

1 Introduction ... 1

2 Important theoretical concepts ... 2
2.1 The concept of gender ... 2
2.2 The Australian bush legend – A myth of pride, romanticism and mateship ... 3

3 Women and the bush – the outback as a space for a female? ... 5
3.1 Baynton's bush – gothic vs. romanticism ... 5
3.2 Baynton's women – does a female belong to the bush? ... 8
3.3 Shared suffering – analogies between women and animals ... 10

4 Women and men – psychosocial factors of bush life ... 12
4.1 Threatening and disloyal – interpersonal relationships in the bush ... 12
4.2 Muted and dehumanised – what does the bush make out of women? ... 14

5 Conclusion ... 16

6 Bibliography ... 17

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Title
Women's life and suffering in the Australian Bush. Challenging bush romanticism and the bushman myth in Barbara Baynton's "Bush Studies"
College
University of Bonn  (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie)
Course
Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Theories, Histories, Selected Texts
Grade
2.0
Author
Year
2015
Pages
20
Catalog Number
V319158
ISBN (eBook)
9783668182943
ISBN (Book)
9783668182950
File size
548 KB
Language
English
Keywords
depicting, women, life, suffering, australian, bush, barbara, baynton, studies
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BA Nicole Eismann (Author), 2015, Women's life and suffering in the Australian Bush. Challenging bush romanticism and the bushman myth in Barbara Baynton's "Bush Studies", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/319158

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