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As a researcher for AustLit, I have tried to identify and locate points of entry through which even a monolingual researcher might access and build awareness of Australia’s multilingual literatures. Community language newspapers, which have existed in Australian since the nineteenth century, and which continue with substantial circulations in the twenty-first century, are excellent resources if one is fluent in the respective language. Bilingual or multilingual magazines or newspapers are not as common, but can provide an English reading researcher with documentation of community literary activities that would otherwise remain inaccessible. These magazines are like islands – multilingual islands in the midst of the dominant monolingual literary culture. In the Australian literary context it may be appropriate to think of the production of literature in other languages as islands of literary activity where multiple languages are maintained amidst the surrounding English writing. In this essay I’ll discuss a number of literary journals that provide access to Australia’s multilingual literary activities. Two of these are indeed multilingual, carrying articles and creative writing in a number of languages. The third is bilingual, publishing content in English and Vietnamese only, but will be included it here as an indication of the breadth and significance of writing in Australia in languages other than English, writing that is diasporic and transnational as well as multilingual. (Author's abstract)
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- A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers 1992 single work bibliography biography
- Ambitious Friends 1994 periodical (9 issues)
- Integration : The Magazine for Multicultural and Vietnamese Issues 1993 periodical (15 issues)
- The Muses' Magazine 1927 periodical (2 issues)
- I Fiddled the Years Away 1946 single work autobiography
- Kunapipi 1979 periodical (64 issues)
- Tuyển Tập Những Cây Bút Úc Châu. 1 1997 anthology poetry short story
- Bên Kia Là Núi 1998 single work novel
- Năm Mươi 1993 single work poetry