Explorations in Australian Literature

Explorations in Australian Literature
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Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 8176257095
ISBN-13 : 9788176257091
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Explorations in Australian Literature by : Jaydeep Sarangi

A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900

A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900
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Publisher : Camden House
Total Pages : 496
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ISBN-10 : 1571133496
ISBN-13 : 9781571133496
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 by : Nicholas Birns

A fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.

Australianama

Australianama
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780190922603
ISBN-13 : 0190922605
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Australianama by : Samia Khatun

Charts the history of South Asian diaspora, weaving together stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire.

Reckoning with the Past

Reckoning with the Past
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781351613354
ISBN-13 : 1351613359
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Reckoning with the Past by : Ashley Barnwell

This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family storytelling, memory, and postcolonial identity. With attention to the political potential of family histories, Reckoning with the Past argues that authors’ often autobiographical works enable us to uncover, confront, and revise national mythologies. An important contribution to the emerging global conversation about multidirectional memory and the need to attend to the effects of colonisation, this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary field of scholarly readers.

Subverting the Empire

Subverting the Empire
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Publisher : National Library Australia
Total Pages : 264
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Synopsis Subverting the Empire by : Paul Genoni

This paper examines the way in which contemporary Australian novelists use various tropes derived from exploration in order to embellish themes of personal search in their fiction. By doing so they have borrowed from the language and myths created by what was essentially an exercise in imperialism, and applied them to the quest by individuals in the settler society to find a permanent spiritual home in the new country. The exploration imagery proves to be apposite, in that just as the empire's hopes were dashed when exploration of the inland was repelled by the barren heart of the continent, so too has the metaphysical exploration of the same spaces foundered on uncompromising and withholding landscapes.

The Cambridge History of Australian Literature

The Cambridge History of Australian Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 623
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ISBN-10 : 9780521881654
ISBN-13 : 052188165X
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge History of Australian Literature by : Peter Pierce

Draws on scholarship from leading figures in the field and spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society.

Explorations in Creative Writing

Explorations in Creative Writing
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Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 0522850561
ISBN-13 : 9780522850567
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Explorations in Creative Writing by : Kevin Brophy

These essays, stories and fragments are about writing. They explore the dilemmas of living as a writer, the subtleties and inspirations of reading as a writer, and the contradictions created when a writer tries to teach others how it is done.

Lies, Damned Lies

Lies, Damned Lies
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Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781761150104
ISBN-13 : 1761150103
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Lies, Damned Lies by : Claire G. Coleman

Winner of the University Of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award A deeply personal exploration of Australia's colonisation past, present and future by one of Australia's finest contemporary authors. This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to the bones of truth and country; there is truth here, not disguised but in the open and that truth hurts. In Lies, Damned Lies acclaimed author Claire G. Coleman, a proud Noongar woman, takes the reader on a journey through the past, present and future of Australia, lensed through her own experience. Beautifully written, this literary work blends the personal with the political, offering readers an insight into the stark reality of the ongoing trauma of Australia’s violent colonisation. Colonisation in Australia is not over. Colonisation is a process, not an event – and the after-effects will continue while there are still people to remember it. PRAISE FOR CLAIRE G. COLEMAN ‘An urgent examination of oneself and one’s country. Written with a booming cadence that demands to be read aloud, again and again.’ – Tara June Winch, Miles Franklin Award winning author of The Yield ‘You may think you’re woke, but Coleman never sleeps.’ – Dr Tyson Yunkaporta, bestselling author of Sand Talk ‘Coleman is unflinching.’ – Sydney Review of Books on Terra Nullius​ ‘Coleman stuns with this imaginative, astounding debut about colonisation.’ – Publishers Weekly on Terra Nullius ‘A powerful, sobering piece of writing that makes us face an Australia we try to forget, but should always remember.’ – Adelaide Review on Terra Nullius ​

The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music

The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music
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Publisher : Anthem Press
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9781785270925
ISBN-13 : 1785270923
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music by : Joseph Cummins

‘Imagined Sound’ is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of ‘imagined sound’, a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space. Emphasising sound and listening, this approach draws out and re-examines the key narratives that shape and are shaped by Australian landscapes and histories, stories of first contact, frontier violence, the explorer journey, the convict experience, non-Indigenous belonging, Pacific identity and contemporary Indigenous Dreaming. ‘Imagined Sound’ offers a compelling analysis of how these narratives are reharmonised in key works of literature and music.

Explorations Into Highland New Guinea, 1930-1935

Explorations Into Highland New Guinea, 1930-1935
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780817304461
ISBN-13 : 0817304460
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Explorations Into Highland New Guinea, 1930-1935 by : Michael J. Leahy

Explorations into Highland New Guinea, 1930-1935 is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit--not of honor and glory, but of excitement and riches--by one such adventurer, Michael "Mick" Leahy, his brothers Jim and Pat, and friends Mick Dwyer and Jim Taylor.