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* Contents derived from the
Hornsby,
Hornsby area,
Sydney Northern Suburbs,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Random House
, 1989 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Ghosts, single work autobiography prose (p. 10-25)
- Sometimes Reality Can Drive You into the Light Fantastic, single work autobiography prose satire (p. 25-27)
- The Penny Drops, single work autobiography prose (p. 28-30)
- Life's Royal Chess Pieces, single work prose humour (p. 30-33)
- Exams Fail the Test, single work autobiography prose (p. 33-36)
- Heartstrings and Harmony, single work autobiography prose (p. 36-39)
- Sugar-Coated Bitter Pill, single work prose satire (p. 40-42)
- Love Me, Love My Battle Scars, single work autobiography prose (p. 42-45)
- Shoplifting Junkies, single work autobiography prose (p. 45-48)
- To Have or Not Have, single work autobiography prose (p. 48-51)
- Till Breach of Contract Do Us Part, single work prose (p. 51-54)
- You Don't Feel Like a Dumb-Bell in the Gym, single work autobiography prose (p. 54-56)
- It's Tough to Get Good and Angry, single work autobiography prose (p. 56-59)
- If at First You Don't Succeed, Relax and Don't Apologise, single work prose biography (p. 59-61)
- It's Time to Get on With the Dance, single work autobiography prose (p. 62-64)
- The Monster's are Lurking at the Highway's Edge, single work autobiography prose (p. 65-67)
- The Bush Inspires a Swag of Emotions, single work autobiography prose (p. 68-70)
- English as a Sekon Langwidge, single work autobiography prose (p. 70-73)
- Without Cliches, Migrant Children are Lost Souls, single work prose (p. 73-75)
- Scaling the Linguistic Wall of Indifference, single work prose (p. 76-78)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Excuse Me Is Our Heritage Showing? Representations of Diasporic Experiences across the Generations
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: FULGOR , November vol. 3 no. 3 2008; This paper examines the narration of diasporic experiences by writers of Italian descent. It investigates the ways in which relationships between ‘home’ and ‘destination’ cultures are negotiated across the generations. Narratives by three women writers, Rosa Cappiello, Anna Maria Dell’oso and Melina Marchetta are analysed to show how negotiating the tensions between nostalgia for the past and the needs of the present transforms and translates notions of ‘home’ for writers who are living ‘in between’ cultures. Through a reading of the narratives of these three authors, each representative of a different generation, the paper considers the ways in which space, place and identity interact in determining the politics of belonging. It is argued that the role of the hyphenate writer has changed over the decades and across generations, from that of a raconteur of what took place, a role that may lean more toward nostalgia than analysis, to that of cultural mediator and, more recently, cultural examiner. Further, the texts chosen for analysis reveal a distinctive strategy of representation – a rhetoric of location – in which spatiality functions as a symbolic conduit between the plotting of identity constructions and Italian/Australian realities. [Author's abstract] -
Cultural (Re)Locations : Narratives by Contemporary Italian Australian Women
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Literary and Social Diasporas : An Italian Australian Perspective 2007; (p. 147-164)
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Cultural (Re)Locations : Narratives by Contemporary Italian Australian Women
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Literary and Social Diasporas : An Italian Australian Perspective 2007; (p. 147-164) -
Excuse Me Is Our Heritage Showing? Representations of Diasporic Experiences across the Generations
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: FULGOR , November vol. 3 no. 3 2008; This paper examines the narration of diasporic experiences by writers of Italian descent. It investigates the ways in which relationships between ‘home’ and ‘destination’ cultures are negotiated across the generations. Narratives by three women writers, Rosa Cappiello, Anna Maria Dell’oso and Melina Marchetta are analysed to show how negotiating the tensions between nostalgia for the past and the needs of the present transforms and translates notions of ‘home’ for writers who are living ‘in between’ cultures. Through a reading of the narratives of these three authors, each representative of a different generation, the paper considers the ways in which space, place and identity interact in determining the politics of belonging. It is argued that the role of the hyphenate writer has changed over the decades and across generations, from that of a raconteur of what took place, a role that may lean more toward nostalgia than analysis, to that of cultural mediator and, more recently, cultural examiner. Further, the texts chosen for analysis reveal a distinctive strategy of representation – a rhetoric of location – in which spatiality functions as a symbolic conduit between the plotting of identity constructions and Italian/Australian realities. [Author's abstract]
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