AustLit
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Contents
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Rising,
single work
review
— Review of Jurrungu Ngan-ga 2021 single work musical theatre ; - Unholy Trinity, single work short story
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George Haddad Losing Face,
single work
review
— Review of Losing Face 2022 single work novel ;'“Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity or genuineness,” wrote Benedict Anderson, the late, great Irish historian of nationalism, “but in the style in which they are imagined.” It’s a line that should ring in the ears of those who have spent time reading the recent explosion of fictions by Australian authors from Middle Eastern backgrounds. Figures such as Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Omar Sakr have written novels that ache with a sense of lost connection – whether to language, culture, religion, people or place – yet do so in a manner so vivid and charismatic, their woundedness takes on a distinct character.'(Introduction)
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Sam Wallman Our Members Be Unlimited : A Comic about Workers and Their Unions,
single work
review
— Review of Our Members Be Unlimited 2022 single work graphic novel non-fiction ;'Unionism has been declining for three decades in Australia. Today trade union membership is about 14 per cent of all Australian workers, having peaked in the 1970s. Young workers are less likely to be union members now than older ones. Even so, unions still play a vital role in the Australian workplace, such as successfully winning a recent minimum wage guarantee for workers picking produce.' (Introduction)
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Edwina Preston Bad Art Mother,
single work
review
— Review of Bad Art Mother 2022 single work novel ;'In 1961, fed up with being ignored, poet Gwen Harwood sent two acrostic sonnets to The Bulletin under a male pseudonym, spelling out: “so long bulletin”, “fuck all editors”. The scandal made headlines – not only because The Bulletin was duped, but because a woman dared to use such an obscenity. Harwood’s recollection that one friend declared her “cut off from decent motherhood” inspired Edwina Preston’s latest novel, Bad Art Mother.' (Introduction)
