Boom! Excursions in Fantasy Land

Van Loon, Julienne

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Authors

Van Loon, Julienne

Date

2007

Type

Journal Article

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Citation

Van Loon, Julienne. 2007. Boom! Excursions in fantasy land, in Schultz, J. (ed), Griffith Review 15: Divided Nation, pp. 109-120. South Brisbane, QLD: Griffith University; Sidney, NSW: ABC Books.

Source Title

Griffith Review

Additional URLs

http://www.griffithreview.com

Faculty

Division of Humanities

Department of Communication and Cultural Studies

Faculty of Media, Society and Culture (MSC)

Remarks

Originally published as: Van Loon, Julienne (2007) Boom! Excursions in Fantasy Land, Griffith Review 15:110-120.

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39509

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

This literary essay explores everyday lived experience during the mining boom in Perth, Western Australia, particularly the idea that the cultural narrative of economic progress obscures and excludes, both imaginatively and geographically, other ways of being.