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Barracuda's Freak Bodies and Elite Swimming in Australia.

This article considers the way in which elite swimming in Australia constitutes a system of identity to frame the privileging of heterosexuality, able-bodiedness and hypermasculinity in Christos Tsiolkas's novel Barracuda (2013) and its television adaptation (2016). It argues that the two versions o...

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Published in:Journal of Australian Studies Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 98 - 112
Main Authors: Gildersleeve, Jessica, McDonald, Janet
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2022
Subjects:
Television adaptations
Swimming
Government ownership
Criminal act
Elite athletes
Parallel processing
Australia
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