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'The past three decades have seen David Carter’s books, chapters and journal articles gradually establish his solid academic reputation in the fields of Australian literature and cultural studies. The younger and promising scholar Roger Osborne has also achieved impressive research results in the fields of Australian publishing history and digital humanities. Their collaborative effort, Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s, represents an innovative contribution to the study of Australian national literature and its formation. It reveals a triangle model in the map of the circulation of Australian literature, in which Australia, the UK and the US occupy the three points. Instead of being limited by the “imperial and colonised” binary thinking mode, Carter and Osborne draw attention to another side of the triangle on which Australia stands and the US awaits exploration.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Journal of Australian Studies vol. 44 no. 2 2020 19490028 2020 periodical issue

    'Research that relates to Indigenous Australian history has changed considerably since Aboriginal history first emerged as a distinct field in the 1970s. Beginning as an interdisciplinary field, Aboriginal history has since been shaped by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and linguists who have brought to light a diverse range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ historical experiences. Such research has sought to answer eminent anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner’s call to shatter the “Great Australian Silence” that is said to have omitted Indigenous people from national narratives of Australia’s past. Since its inception, Aboriginal history has proved to be a dynamic field. Much early work focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ experiences of colonisation—from first encounters with Europeans, to histories of frontier conflict, governmental intervention through protection and assimilation policies, and Indigenous labour histories. The influence of anthropology and linguistics has also ensured that Aboriginal history explores Indigenous worlds, drawing on languages and ethnography to reveal insights into so-called traditional practices concerning caring for Country and land management, diplomacy and law, and ceremonial life.' (Shino Konishi, Introduction)

    2020
    pg. 246-247
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