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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Afghan Australian Identities
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'I recently learned about the passing of Mona Akbar Wilson, one of the last known descendants of an Afghan cameleer who came to Australia in the late nineteenth century. I first learned of Mona, or rather of her father, when I read Pamela Rajkowski's book Linden Girl during the summer of 1996. I came across Linden Girl while perusing my father's collection of books stacked on dusty shelves in my childhood home in Perth...' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Southerly Persian Passages vol. 76 no. 3 2017 11463048 2017 periodical issue

    'Persia is the name of an ancient civilisation, a cultural zone, and an aesthetic imaginary. It has long fascinated Western travellers, scholars of cultural dialogue and mystical poets. This issue of Southerly is an intervention in how Persian culture and poetics are perceived and adopted in today’s Australian and global literary scenes. How do contemporary Australian poets and scholars respond to the Sufi ghazals of Hafez of Shiraz? What has been the understanding of Afghan cameleers according to the discourse of Australian national identity? How are the questions of gender and identity addressed by contemporary Iranian writers? And what are some of the best examples of contemporary Persian- Australian fiction, non-fiction and poetry? This issue of Southerly presents a diverse and provocative range of responses to these questions and shows how our literary cultures are intertwined. There is also a selection of texts to be found in The Long Paddock, and an offering of the best Australian writing on themes not related to the Persian world.' (Editorial introduction)

    2017
    pg. 46-64
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  • Linden Girl Pamela A. Rajkowski , 1995 single work biography
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