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Indian Journal of Australian Studies
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* Contents derived from the 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Australian Youth Literature and the Formation of Contemporary Australian Cultural Identity,
single work
criticism
(p. 21-31)Quite like the American literature in the 1830s, the Australian literature almost a century afterwards displayed an urges to carve out its own identity. Like Emerson and Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville, Whitman and Mark Twain, the Australian writers of the early phase focused on where they saw marks of distinction, defining the new nation as a nation of their won, their own land.
- Making Connections, Pankaj K Singh (interviewer), single work interview (p. 43-49)
- India in Australian Imagination, single work extract (p. 50-67)
- Of Olives and Walnuts : Nature Imagery in the Poetry of Mark O'Connor and Ruskin Bond, single work criticism (p. 68-77)
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'The Commonwealth of Manu' : Ancient Indian Concept in Les Murray's Vision of Future Australia,
single work
criticism
(p. 78-91)Kanwar Dinesh Singh's essay 'studies how Les Murray's poetry represents a sense of Australianness, which is characterised by the concept of convergence of diverse cultures, ideologies, value systems and societal mores, quite akin to the heterogeneous and composite culture and social texture of the Indian nation.' (Author's abstract)
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Political and Social Discourse in the Plays of Hannie Rayson with Particular Focus on Inheritance (2003),
single work
criticism
(p. 92)
Hannie Rayson is what is called in Australian slang a 'stirrer', meaning a person who attempts to stir up debate on matters of social and political significance. This is perhaps not unusual for a playwright in any country in an age when political engagement is increasingly seen as the legitimate province of the artist. It is not unusual in Australia where historically may playwrights have concerned themselves with notions of Australian identity, politics and social justice in their works.
- Fragmented Identities : Aboriginal and Diasporic Protaginists in Select Short Stories from Home and Away, single work criticism (p. 99-107)
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Aesthetics and Activism in the Poetry of Judith Beveridge and Sarah Day,
single work
criticism
(p. 108-120)Of all the poets who have written or are writing in Australia, the focus of this article has been narrowed down to Judith Beveridge and Sarah Day, both of whom are seen to write 'pretty' poetry with a strong sense of aesthetics about nature. Both, it is obvious, broaden their writing to more than individual or even the Australian and their sense of aesthetics soon encompasses universal human values.
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Kullark : Remembering History,
single work
criticism
(p. 121)Aboriginal drama, which is a significant development of the 1980s, records the long and devastating history of the two centuries of colonial contact and oppression and represents resistance against the social, cultural, and political subjugation by the white establishment.
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Carpentaria : A Collage of Identity, Ethos and Ethnicity,
single work
review
— Review of Carpentaria 2006 single work novel ; (p. 133-141)
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