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A timeless collection of stories exploring physical and psychological boundaries, some tentatively and others with vigor. In The Americans, Baby the milieu is a Sydney under-40 population who, hoping that being earnest or outrageous will make them feel real, are left saturated with anxiety instead. An inherent resistance to American cultural intrusions and the risks that those from a great powerful land such as the US take when they meddle in another culture (they can be snared, seduced, destroyed) are explored with traditional Moorhouse flair and wit. These stories are timeless in their concerns, and explore ideology, idealism, conflict, relationships and sex.(Source: Google Books website).
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Contents
- Dell Goes into Politics, single work short story (p. 1-10)
- The American, Paul Jonson, single work short story (p. 11-27)
- Becker and the Boys from the Band, single work short story (p. 28-38)
- The Girl from the Family of Man, single work short story (p. 39-51)
- The First Story of Nature, single work short story (p. 52-60)
- The American Poet's Visit, single work short story humour (p. 63-76)
- Five Incidents Concerning the Flesh and the Blood, single work short story (p. 79-100)
- The Machine Gun, single work short story (p. 101-111)
- Who is Sylvia?, single work short story (p. 112-123)
- Becker on the Moon, single work short story (p. 124-132)
- A Person of Accomplishment, single work short story (p. 133-147)
- The Coca-Cola Kid, single work short story (p. 148-159)
- The Girl Who Met Simone De Beauvoir in Paris, single work short story (p. 163-176)
- The St Louis Rotary Convention 1923, Recalled, single work short story (p. 179-197)
- Soft Drink and the Distribution of Soft Drink, single work short story (p. 198-211)
- Jonson's Letter, single work short story correspondence (p. 212-216)
- Anti-Bureaucratisation and the Apparatchiki, single work short story (p. 217-232)
- Jesus Said to Watch for 28 Signs, single work short story (p. 233-240)
- The Letters to Twiggy, single work correspondence (p. 243-258)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature : Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness
London
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Routledge
,
2021
21558011
2021
multi chapter work
criticism
'This unique book on neurocognitive interpretations of Australian literature covers a wide range of analyses by discussing Australian Literary Studies, Aboriginal literary texts, women writers, ethnic writing, bestsellers, neurodivergence fiction, emerging as well as high profile writers, literary hoaxes and controversies, book culture, LGBTIQA+ authors, to name a few. It eclectically brings together a wide gamut of cognitive concepts and literary genres at the intersection of Australian literary studies and cognitive literary studies in the first single-author volume of its kind. It takes Australian Literary Studies into the age of neuroawareness and provides new pathways in contemporary criticism.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Fair’s Fair (Except When It Isn’t) : The Effectiveness of Fair Dealing in the Australian Publishing Industry
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 66 2020;'In November 2016, the Australian Productivity Commission (PC) released a report proposing a ‘fair use exception to replace the current system of fair dealing exceptions’ (ACC 1) in the Australian Copyright Act 1968. The Commission’s recommendation supported the Australian Legal Reform Commission’s (ALRC) findings in its 2013 report ‘Copyright and the Digital Economy’, which stated that a flexible fair use provision would ‘“enable the Act to adapt to changing technologies and uses without the need for legislative intervention”’ (ALRC 95). In the event that a fair use exception is not viable, the ALRC also proposed an alternative ‘new fair dealing’ exception, to broaden the doctrine’s purposes for educational institutions and commercial organisations.' (Introduction)
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Porno-Politics : Frank Moorhouse's The Americans, Baby
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 308-314) -
Moorhouse and The Angry Decade
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 31-36) 'Shaw discusses Frank Moorhouse's early writings on Australian sociography. Frank Moorhouse's early writings, in particular the short story collections he termed "discontinuous narrative," Futility and Other Animals (1969) and The Americans, Baby (1972), are a contribution to the current of social and literary changes in Australia around the events of 1972, a year which "has become one of those dates that serve as shorthand reference to distinct periods or phases" (v), according to Kiernan in his Introduction to The Americans, Baby.' (Editor's abstract) -
Rejected by America? Some Tensions in Australian–American Literary Relations
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 309-322)'This chapter focuses on the period from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s, a watershed period in Australia-US literary relations, which saw the publication in the US of Australian novelists Peter Carey, David Malouf, Jessica Anderson, Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley, Helen Garner, Tim Winton and Beverley Farmer among others, but which was also crossed by tensions and contradictions which led to confusion, disappointment, lost opportunities, and sometimes the outright rejection of important Australian authors and their books. Among these tensions, we look at three in particular: the promising but limited role played by the multinational publisher (in this case Penguin Books) offering Australian titles through its US affiliate (Viking Penguin); the intervention by literary agents in Australia - US literary publishing relations; and the difference in values between the two cultures, which served to hinder the appreciation of important works of Australian writing.' (p. 309)
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Untitled
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Nation , 22 July 1972; (p. 25)
— Review of The Americans, Baby : A Discontinuous Narrative of Stories and Fragments 1972 selected work short story -
Untitled
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 14-20 October 1972; (p. 1549)
— Review of The Americans, Baby : A Discontinuous Narrative of Stories and Fragments 1972 selected work short story ; Aspects of the Dying Process : Short Stories 1972 selected work short story -
Opening Up Vistas
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 October 1972; (p. 11)
— Review of The Americans, Baby : A Discontinuous Narrative of Stories and Fragments 1972 selected work short story -
Untitled
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 July 1972; (p. 28)
— Review of The Americans, Baby : A Discontinuous Narrative of Stories and Fragments 1972 selected work short story -
Untitled
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 29 July 1972; (p. 28)
— Review of The Americans, Baby : A Discontinuous Narrative of Stories and Fragments 1972 selected work short story - y Frank Moorhouse : The Writer as an Artist Delhi : Shipra Publications , 2000 Z1048778 2000 single work criticism
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Literary Star
1972
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 November 1972; (p. 2) -
Multiculturalism in Contemporary Australian Fiction
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Caring Cultures : Sharing Imaginations : Australia and India 2006; (p. 142-152) The author reads a selection of contemporary Australian short stories for their portrayal of multiculturalism. -
Koka-Kola Kulture : Reflections Upon Things American Down Under
1993
single work
criticism
essay
— Appears in: Southwest Review , Spring vol. 78 no. 2 1993; (p. 231-) Here Graham considers the Australian response to U. S. culture, and the influence of U. S. literary culture on Australian literature and writers. -
Fifty Years On : Notes on a Story : My Writing of 'The Young Girl and the American Sailor' Published in 'Southerly', Number Four, 1957.
2007
single work
autobiography
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 67 no. 3 2007; (p. 118-122)