Thinking the Antipodes

Monash University Publishing
Thinking the Antipodes

In 1956 Bernard Smith wrote that we in Australia were migratory birds. This was to become a leading motif of his own thinking and an inspiration for Peter Beilharz. Beilharz came to argue that the idea of the antipodes made sense less in its geographical than its cultural form, viewed as a relation rather than a place. Beilharz is from La Trobe Uni