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1 y separately published work icon Imaginative Possession : Evocation of Place in Works by David Malouf, Barbara Hanrahan and Gerald Murnane Alex Rombouts , 1990 Z862732 1990 single work thesis 'This is a study of Johnno by David Maiouf (1975), The Scent of Eucalyptus by Barbara Hanrahan (1973), and Tamarisk Row by Gerald Mumane (1974). These three writers have realised, in a way which is distinctive, an imaginative possession of and by place. Each of them has imaginatively taken hold of his/her own particular place and in so doing has found a way to belong. I do not say 'belong to Australia as a whole', because for them it does not exist as a single, cohesive entity. Rather these writers find their own features in their own particular place. Theirs are alternative maps, not merely of Australia but of Brisbane and Adelaide and Bendigo, recreated according to their own experiences and the shaping force of these places on them.' (Paragraph one, Introduction)
1 Dark Interludes Alex Rombouts , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Phoenix Review , Spring no. 4 1989; (p. 111-115)
— Review of Blue Angels Ian Moffitt , 1987 single work novel ; Stopping Over Ian Kennedy Williams , 1988 single work novel ; In the Winter Dark Tim Winton , 1988 single work novel
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