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Issue Details:
First known date:
2016...
vol.
38
no.
2
Spring
2016
of
Commonwealth
est. 1974
Commonwealth Essays and Studies
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'The Drover's Wife' : Celebrating or Demystifying Bush Mythology?,
single work
criticism
(p. 73-81)The essay aims to show the cultural, aesthetic and identificatory displacements at work in the successive revisions and reinterpretations of Henry Lawson's "drover's wife" figure who became a national icon right away. It is quite interesting to note the surprising abstract and bare nature of both the figure and the bush, even in Lawson's original short story. They seem to crystallize national character precisely because they leave it rather unspecified and open to interpretation, except as a struggle to cope with one's adopted land and the acceptance of possible failure.' (Publication abstract)
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Review : Contemporary Australian Literature : A World Not yet Dead,
single work
review
— Review of Contemporary Australian Literature : A World Not Yet Dead 2015 single work criticism ; (p. 139-140) -
Review : Postcolonial Life Narratives: Testimonial Transactions,
single work
review
— Review of Postcolonial Life Narratives : Testimonial Transactions 2015 single work criticism ; (p. 141-142)
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