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An account of the author's five years of travel through the outback, from Adelaide to Darwin on the Birdsville Track, to the Red Centre and Arnhem Land.
Notes
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Also available in braille, and as a sound recording.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Robertson and Mullens
, 1946 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Darwini"Man Fong Low and Wing Cheong Sing -", single work poetry
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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‘The Great Australian Loneliness’ : On Writing an Inter-Asian Biography of Ernestine Hill
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Intercultural Studies , vol. 35 no. 3 2014; (p. 238-249) 'The Great Australian Loneliness (1937) is a famous book of travel reportage by Ernestine Hill (1899–1972), a key figure in the mid-twentieth century shaping of popular media culture in Australia. Through her journalism she disseminated debate about the great public issues of her day: the status of Aboriginal peoples, immigration from Asia and the state’s role in national development. In this paper, I take the White Australian ‘loneliness’ her title invokes as a methodological challenge to situate both her life and the ethnically diverse sociability she actually described in an inter-Asian framework of analysis capable of unsettling those bonds between ethnicity and nationality that many twentieth-century writers worked so hard to secure. In the process, I argue for an ‘Australian Asian’ approach to cultural history.' (Publication abstract) -
How American Servicemen Found Ernestine Hill in Their Kitbags
2014
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essay
— Appears in: Inside Story , June 2014; -
American Servicemen Find Ernestine Hill in Their Kitbags : The Great Australian Loneliness
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 84-90) Inside Story , June 2014; -
Ernestine Hill and the North : Reading Race and Indigeneity In the Great Australian Loneliness and The Territory
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , 1 June vol. 37 no. 2 2013; (p. 194-207) 'This article examines the work of Ernestine Hill (1899–1972), an Australian journalist, travel writer, and broadcaster. It begins by elaborating some of the ways in which Hill's life and work have been given scholarly treatment previously, and then it proposes a reading of her work in terms of the themes of race and belonging—in particular, the relationship between whiteness and indigeneity in her written depictions of Australia's far north. The article draws upon the conceptual framework developed by Terry Goldie and Penelope Ingram to read Hill's collection of travel pieces,The Great Australian Loneliness (1937), and her historical writing in The Territory (1951).' (Authors abstract) -
The Transnational Fantasy : The Case of James Cowan
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 67-73) 'Recent criticism has seen the rise of an approach to literature that views texts as products of 'transnationalism,' a move that arises from a growing sense that, in a global age, authors should not be bounded by the traditional limits of national culture. In her book Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006), for instance, Rebecca Walkowitz looks at how this trend has evolved in world Anglophone literature, extending from canonical writers like Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf to such contemporary authors as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, and W.G. Sebald. In the field of Australian literature, the question of transnationalism is often linked to issues of postcolonialism, as reflected in recent critical works like Graham Huggan's Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism (2007) and Nathanael O'Reilly's edited collection Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature (2010), both of which examine how Australian literature and culture have metamorphosed in the new global context. While there is little doubt that world literature has been affected in important ways by this broadening of literary stage, there seems to be a widespread conflation between two similar but different terms: the transnational and transcultural. For while it is true that the culture of many countries arises from a cosmopolitan and diverse assortment of influences, this loosening of cultural boundaries between nations is far from being simultaneous with the decline of the state.' (Author's introduction)
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Untitled
1937
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review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 27 March 1937; (p. 234)
— Review of The Great Australian Loneliness 1937 single work autobiography -
Untitled
1939
single work
review
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 15 July 1939; (p. 12)
— Review of The Great Australian Loneliness 1937 single work autobiography -
Romantic Pattern That Is Australia
1940
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 March 1940; (p. 4)
— Review of The Great Australian Loneliness 1937 single work autobiography -
Untitled
1940
single work
review
— Appears in: Walkabout , 1 August vol. 6 no. 10 1940; (p. 42, 45, 47)
— Review of The Great Australian Loneliness 1937 single work autobiography -
Riot of Colour ... in Paperback Parade
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 September 1968; (p. 24)
— Review of The Great Australian Loneliness 1937 single work autobiography -
Metamorphosis : Travel Narratives and Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Relations in the 1930s
2002
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criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 75 2002; (p. 85-92, notes 189-190) -
Recent Books : Digest of the Month's Reading
1946
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review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , August vol. 1 no. 2 1946; (p. 57-61)
— Review of Beyond the Hill Lies China : Scenes from a Medical Life in Australia 1945 single work novel ; Twenty Great Australian Stories 1946 anthology short story -
Publishers Write About Their Outstanding New Books
1937
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correspondence
— Appears in: All About Books , 12 March vol. 9 no. 3 1937; (p. 42-43) Publishers' lists of new releases and reprints. Some briefs comments on some subjects. Collins and Herbert Jenkins include prices. -
Outstanding New Publications and Best Sellers
1937
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column
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 June vol. 9 no. 6 1937; (p. 88) -
Panorama : The Live, The Dead and The Living
1988
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criticism
— Appears in: Island in the Stream : Myths of Place in Australian Culture 1988; (p. 160-187)
Last amended 24 Apr 2017 19:02:30
Subjects:
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
- 1930s
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