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29 juin 2021
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Christine Vandamme, « “The Drover’s Wife”: Celebrating or Demystifying Bush Mythology? », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.4898
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The essay aims to show the cultural, aesthetic and identificatory displacements at work in the successive revisions and reinterpretations of Henry Lawson’s “drover’s wife” figure who became a national icon right away. It is quite interesting to note the surprising abstract and bare nature of both the figure and the bush, even in Lawson’s original short story. They seem to crystallize national character precisely because they leave it rather unspecified and open to interpretation, except as a struggle to cope with one’s adopted land and the acceptance of possible failure.