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* Contents derived from the 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Colonial Tales : A Poinciana Tree of Unusual Kindness, single work short story (p. 11-13)
- Searching for His Sister, single work short story mystery (p. 14-21)
- Another Mango Season, single work short story mystery (p. 22-24)
- Flame Treesi"Those nights of drinking in the bush", single work poetry (p. 24)
- A Place Like Lae, single work short story (p. 25-31)
- All That Remainsi"Sap is a grey coalescence of fibre and pus, an obscenity oozing slowly down", single work poetry (p. 31)
- The Garden of Morven, single work short story myth/legend (p. 32-41)
- Inland Seai"You've drawn a whaleboat through desert", single work poetry (p. 41)
- Something Must Be Burning, single work short story (p. 42-48)
- A Delightful Weekend in the Country, single work short story (p. 49-58)
- Sightlinesi"You've strung prayer flags across", single work poetry (p. 58)
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Ways of Seeing 'Country' : Colonial, Postcolonial, and Indigenous Perceptions of the Australian Landscape,
single work
criticism
(p. 59-77)'Country' to Aboriginals is a whole that includes humans along with animal, vegetable and mineral constituents. To Anglo-Celtic colonial views the Australian 'country' was harsh and alien. Autochonous inhabitants were invisible or erasable, including their part in shaping the perceived 'park-like' areas. Marketing views of Australia disappointed actual migrants. Concerns about the efffect of white re-shaping of the landscape, and environmental destruction, only appeared in the late twentieth century, and an awareness of original inhabitants' rights in the landscape is central to postcolonial ways of seeing the 'country.'
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Country Matters in the Little (Southern Steel) Company,
single work
criticism
(p. 78-94)A discussion of similarities in venue, time and pre-occupations (Australian cities' and industries' vulnerability to sea attack during WWII, 'cultural cringe' of the '1950s) in Eleanor Dark's The Little Company and Dymphna Cusack's Southern Steel, with reference to Cusack's defence of Australian literature and development of regional awareness in her Newcastle setting, and Dark's exploration of a new love for the Australian landscape, and the awareness of national history in both.
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Reading the Rural Narrative : The Gympie District Show as a Space of Community,
single work
criticism
(p. 95-113)History and profile of the Gympie district show (est. 1877, in South-Eastern Queensland, as a rural and regional cultural event.
- Angus Nivison : His Painting : The Language of Mountains is Raini"They are cut-outs, these mountains,", single work poetry (p. 114)
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The Significance of the Daintree Setting in Janette Turner Hospital's Orpheus Lost,
single work
criticism
(p. 115-119)The use of the Daintree rainforest landscape as an Elysium in contrast to an Underworld of capture and imprisonment by terrorists in Beirut.
- The River Nile, Van Diemen's Land (1837)i"Here with pensive peace could I abide", single work poetry (p. 119-120)
- Exploring the Hidden Self : An Interview with Malcolm Knox, Lindsay Simpson (interviewer), single work interview (p. 121-124)
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Forewarned is Forearmed : A Carnival of Masculinities,
single work
review
— Review of Jamaica : A Novel 2007 single work novel ; (p. 125-127) -
Death and Life on Palm Island,
single work
review
— Review of The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island 2008 single work prose ; (p. 127-129)
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