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DECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS

DECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS. IN HENRY LAWSON’S THE DROVER’S WIFE. Construction of Australian Culture. This short story helped provide the founding myth of Australian culture.

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DECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS

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  1. DECONSTRUCTIONOF CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN HENRY LAWSON’S THE DROVER’S WIFE.

  2. Construction of Australian Culture • This short story helped provide the founding myth of Australian culture. • One of the main elements it discusses is social equality. It criticised the typical British stratification of society.

  3. Ideology • The story supports the ideology of egalitarianism: It can still be perceived in Australia. It leaves little space for personal growth and for being different from the group. The belief underpinning this ideology is 'to cut down the tall poppy'

  4. Archetype • Australians wanted to assert the new emerging national identity. • The founding myth was based on heroic ethic of mate-ship. • The new hero was an independent character who defies the authorities and is, usually, a representative of the lower classes.

  5. The anti-hero • There is a socialist bias (= attitude). • Nowadays, these founding myths are redefined but still exist as constructs in literature.

  6. Consider your novel • In their works, there appear squatters, drovers, jackaroos, swagmen, bushrangers ('noble outlaws). • Consider the character archetypes that exist in your novel – do the possess any of the attributes of the ‘lower class’? Are they the heroes?

  7. Australian literature… • Character attributes include: a tough, physically strong, laconic, inarticulate, self-reliant, independent, imaginative person.

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