Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story

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.

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