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Subtitle: Paranoid
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
- Market Forces, single work short story (p. 5-8)
- 'Quadrant' Magazine and CIA Largesse, extract criticism (p. 9-15)
- Collecting Books and Intelligence : The Curious Case of Jack Moir, single work criticism (p. 16-18)
- The Butler : Desert Fox. December, 1998i"They don't understand that you grew up near the sea,", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Stars and Stripesi"More stripes than stars I am ruefully afraid:", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Stuff Goes Oni"I slump under the hanging black", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Characterization in Eliots 'Silly Arse Marner', single work short story (p. 27-31)
- Being There, single work criticism (p. 32-36)
- Robbery with Plastic Knife, single work short story (p. 37-40)
- How Much Sugar?, single work short story (p. 41-45)
- Written Out of History? : The Disappearance of Australia's Women Playwrights, single work criticism (p. 46-50)
- Evening Emerald : Desert Fox, December, 1998i"The impeachment is comic.", single work poetry (p. 66)
- Beachwalki"I draw the morning landscape", single work poetry (p. 67)
- Truth - Leave It Outi"if you want to keep a thief honest - rob him", single work poetry (p. 67)
- News of the Dayi"[concrete poem]", single work poetry (p. 68-72)
- The Death of Don McLeodi"Don McLeod is buried at Strelley Station", single work poetry (p. 73)
- Fire: Report from India (Chennai 4/12/98), single work criticism (p. 75-77)
- Bombay Goes to Worki"and comes home again hanging", single work poetry (p. 77)
- Poetry: Underwear of the Soul, single work column (p. 77-79)
- John Gordon Morrison, AM : Goodbye to an Old Friend, single work biography (p. 79-81)
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Paranoia, Surveillance and Literary Politics
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Running Wild : Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding 2004; (p. 267-274)Syson investigates the background to recent attempts by right-wing journalists, historians and intellectuals (mainly in Quadrant and the Courier-Mail) to discredit some former sympathisers with socialism and communism, such as Manning Clark and Henry Reynolds. This leads to a more general discussion of the representation of Australia's history, the role Quadrant, the CIA and the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom have played in it, and the continuing impact of the Cold War on Australian politics and culture.
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Paranoia, Surveillance and Literary Politics
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Running Wild : Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding 2004; (p. 267-274)Syson investigates the background to recent attempts by right-wing journalists, historians and intellectuals (mainly in Quadrant and the Courier-Mail) to discredit some former sympathisers with socialism and communism, such as Manning Clark and Henry Reynolds. This leads to a more general discussion of the representation of Australia's history, the role Quadrant, the CIA and the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom have played in it, and the continuing impact of the Cold War on Australian politics and culture.