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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Changing Geographies : Essays on Australia
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Selected papers from the conference 'Changing Geographies : Australia and the Milennium', held at Barcelona University 2nd-4th February 2000 as part of the Universitat de Barcelona and La Trobe University exchange programme. The selection includes creative writing and papers from a wide range of disciplines - Aboriginal Studies, Art, Film Studies, Anthropology and Cultural Studies.

Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.
  • Introduction, Susan Ballyn,

    'Changing Geographies' and other poems Silvia Cuevas,

    Unsettling The Colonial Imaginary: Possibilities For A Post-Colonial Constitution In Australia', Robert Grant

    'The Vanishing Iberian Connection', Lucy Frost

    'Lost Horizon: Australian Reflections On The Global Village', John Barnes

    'Six Theses On Contemporary Australia', David Carter

    'The Unchanged Landscape', Elisa Morera De La Vall

    'Changing Forms, Changing Voices: The Geography Of 'Eliza Fraser', Maureen Lynch Percopo

    'The Topography Of Decoration', Paul Zika

    'Australian Or Else: The Ludic Performance Of Hermes', Ilinca Stroe

    'Tasmania: Island Or Archipelago; Trinket Or Chain', Elizabeth Mcmahon

    'The Human Face Of Settlement', Geoff Belligoi

    'But You Don't Look Like A Metaphor: Migaloo Thinking about Aboriginal People', Melissa Lucashenko

    'One Hundred Millenniums Plus Two-Maintaining Traditional Indigenous Geographies Minus Two Centuries of Lost Life in the Geography of Australian Ignorance', Alexis Wright

    'Changing Geographies, Unchanging Earth: The Clash of Two Cultures in Women of the Sun', Dolors Collellmir

    'The Collection of the Material Culture and Art of Australian Aborigines in the Museu Etnológic de Barcelona', Dolores Soriano

    'An Approach to the Material Culture of the Aboriginal Community of Gapuwiyak (Northem Territory, Australia)', Jordi Serrallonga, Victoria Medina & Marcos Carrasco

    'The Yolngu Diet: Notes on the Dietary Habits of the Aboriginal Communities in Arnhem Land (Australia)', Victoria Medina, Jordi Serrallonga & Marcos Carrasco

    'Celebrity Heads', Adam Shoemaker

    'The Three Laws of Consumption', Bernard Cohen

    'Ania Walwicz: Mapping Australia's Changing Geography on the Page', Paloma Fresno Calleja

    'The Shape of Inderterminancy in Patrick White's Fringe of Leaves and David Malouf's Remembering Babylon', Stella Borgh Barthet

    'The Search for Identity, the Search for Place in The Rooms in My Mother's House by Olga Lorenzo', Lilit Zeuklin Thwaites

    'Changing Places: Character and Landscape in D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo', Maria Panarello

    'Urban Geographies on the Threshold of the New Millennium: Representations of the City in Janine Burke, Beverley Farmer and Drusilla Modjeska's Narratives', Roberta Buffi

    'Gerald Mumane's Changing Geographies', Karin Hansson

    'No Place Like Home: Living on the Edge of Oceania', Carol Merli

    'Erotic Writing In Australia - Then And Now', Xaver Pons

    ''Determined on Farther Mischief Portrayals of Australia in Contemporary Non-Australian Fiction', Bill Phillips

    'The Olympic Games: Past, Present and Future of Australian History', Juan Carlos Calvo Flores

    'Aileen Pahner: An Australian in the Spanish Civil War', Eva Campama

    'An excerpt from Finding Theodore and Brina', Terri-Ann White

Contents

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Universitat de Barcelona. Centre D'Estudis Australians , 2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Changing Geographiesi"Migration", Silvia Cuevas-Morales , single work poetry (p. 5-7)
Mañana, Mañanai"Again I'm caught up in the", Silvia Cuevas-Morales , Silvia Cuevas-Morales (translator), single work poetry (p. 7)
No 11 Tram : Melbournei""You Greek or Italian"", Silvia Cuevas-Morales , single work poetry (p. 8-9)
Longing for Homei"Lakes and Mountains", Silvia Cuevas-Morales , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Day One 1973i"The flags are waving for the enemy = Las banderas ondean para el enemigo", Silvia Cuevas-Morales , single work poetry (p. 10)
Oh Madridi"Oh Madrid how you hurt me", Silvia Cuevas-Morales , single work poetry (p. 11)
Sunset Drive (Richmond-Australia)i"Golden coin", Silvia Cuevas-Morales , single work poetry (p. 12)
Lost Horizon : Australian Reflections on the Global Village, John Barnes , single work criticism
Discusses the notion of an Australian national identity in relation to the climate of globalisation and with particular reference to the works and ideas of Les Murray,
(p. 43-57)
Six Theses on Contemporary Australia, David Carter , single work criticism
'My six theses - hypotheses rather - are designed to open up these perspectives and map the uneven distribution of the characteristics described across different cultural domains. None can be taken as a general or unique attribute of Australian culture but each reveals something of the particular disposition or dynamics of culture in Australia (its sameness as well as its difference)' (59). The theses are: Britain is irrelevant to contemporary Australian culture; Indigeous cultures are central; multiculturalism is central; modern forms of popular culture have been as significant as high culture; the influence of American culture has been beneficial; Australia's originality is an effect of its 'unoriginality'.
(p. 59-71)
The Unchanged Landscape, Elisa Morera de la Vall , single work criticism
Discusses the essentially urban focus and contribution of Jewish immigrants to Australia.
(p. 73-80)
Changing Forms, Changing Voices : The Geography of 'Eliza Fraser', Maureen Lynch Percopo , single work criticism (p. 81-96)
Australian or Else : The Ludic Performance of Hermes, Ilinca Stroe , single work criticism
Discusses the 'binary' quality of Australian consciousness in terms of a 'conceptual axis by which identities and dis-identifications have been shifted back and forth between Europe ... and Australia.' Includes discussion of postcolonial theory especially the works of Leela Gandhi and Paul Carter.
(p. 101-112)
Tasmania : Island or Archipelago, Trinket or Chain, Elizabeth McMahon , single work criticism (p. 113-120)
'But You Don't Look Like a Metaphor' : Migloo Thinking about Aboriginal People, Melissa Lucashenko , single work essay (p. 127-134)
One Hundred Milleniums Plus Two - Maintaining Traditional Indigenous Geographies. Minus Two Centuries of Lost Life in the Geography of Australian Ignorance, Alexis Wright , single work essay (p. 135-143)
Ania Walwicz : Mapping Australia's Changing Geography on the Page, Paloma Fresno Calleja , single work criticism (p. 193-202)
The Shape of Indeterminacy in Patrick White's Fringe of Leaves and David Malouf's Remembering Babylon, Stella Borgk Barthet , single work criticism (p. 203-210)
The Search for Identity, the Search for Place in The Rooms in My Mother's House by Olga Lorenzo, Lilit Zekulin Thwaites , single work criticism (p. 211-220)
Changing Places : Character and Landscape in D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo, Maria Panarello , single work criticism (p. 221-233)
Urban Geographies on the Threshold of the New Millennium : Representation of the City in Janine Burke, Beverley Farmer and Drusilla Modjeska's Narratives, Roberta Buffi , single work criticism (p. 235-244)

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