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. Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: Towards an 'Architectural Post-colonialism'-Aims, Methods, and Approach for a 'New Binarism', Ethics and Indigenous Material, Next Steps, and Outline of Chapters -- Introduction -- Aims of the Project -- Methods and Approach in the Context of a 'New Binarism' -- Ethics and Indigenous Material -- Next Steps for the Project -- Outline of Chapters -- References -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Place's Prominence in Australian Post-colonialism and Space's (Relative) Sidelining -- Space (and Place) ... But More So (Spatial) Architecture -- (After Space and Place) Architecture and the Built Environment -- The Spatial Potential of the Short Story -- The Short Story: Resisting the 'Spatial Turn' and Embracing the 'Architectural Turn' -- Experiments with Architecture and Language for Post-colonial (De-)Occupation -- Erwin Panofsky and Pierre Bourdieu: Gothic Art, Scholasticism, and Habitus -- Erwin Panofsky, Gérard Genette, and Charles Sanders Peirce: Contents Pages, the Icon, and Architectural Structure -- William H Gass and Mary Gass: Architecture and the Sentence -- Unbuilt Architecture and the Present, Past, and Future: Daniel M Abramson -- References -- 2. Huts, Distant Power, and the Distances between Spatially Formed Places: Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton (1902) -- Introduction: Barbara Baynton and Bush Studies -- 'Bush Church', Enclosure, and Architectural Atavism -- Huts in Architectural (Pre-)History, Philosophy, and Writing: Martin Heidegger and Barbara Baynton -- 'Squeaker's Mate' as a Tale of Two Huts -- 'The Chosen Vessel': Distances, Places (of Spaces), and Power.
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