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Ron Shapiro Ron Shapiro i(A17274 works by)
Also writes as: Ron Shepherd
Born: Established: 1939 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: ca. 1946
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1 1 y separately published work icon Interactions : Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region Dennis Haskell (editor), Ron Shapiro (editor), Nedlands : UWA Publishing University of Western Australia. Centre for Studies in Australian Literature , 2000 Z873065 2000 anthology criticism A collection of eighteen essays arising out of a symposium with the same name held at the University of Western Australia in December 1997. Essays are grouped into three sections - "Cultural Identity in the Global Economy", "Gender and Sexuality" and "Travel and Initiation" -and subjects examined include fiction, autobiography, poetry, film, television, drama, and stand-up comedy. The book "celebrates writing in various forms from a particular region of an internationalised world, and the contributors explore cultural interactions of diverse kinds" (Introduction, p.ix).
1 Untitled Ron Shapiro , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , Spring vol. 42 no. 3 1997; (p. 137-140)

— Review of A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career David Carter , 1997 single work criticism
1 Anti-Semitism and Literature Ron Shapiro , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 148 1997; (p. 59-64)
1 In Postmodern Disorder : The Confused and Confusing World of The Hand that Signed the Paper Ron Shapiro , 1996 single work essay
— Appears in: Salt , vol. 8 no. 1996; (p. 116-124)
1 Untitled Ron Shapiro , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , Summer vol. 41 no. 4 1996; (p. 139-142)

— Review of The Demidenko Debate A. P. Riemer , 1996 single work criticism
1 Ethics, the Literary Imagination, and the Other: The Hand that Ought, or was Imagined, to Have Signed the Paper Ron Shapiro , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 50-51 1996; (p. 42-50)
1 1 From Ron Shapiro Ron Shapiro , 1996 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 184 1996; (p. 6-7)
1 Literary Representations of Ukrainian Anti-Semitism: Helen Demidenko and Aharon Appelfeld Ron Shapiro , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Autumn vol. 56 no. 1 1996; (p. 174-182)
1 The Darville/Demidenko Affair: Jew and Anti-Jew in Australian Fiction Ron Shapiro , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Winter vol. 41 no. 2 1996; (p. 104-117) ‘Whaddaya Know?’ : Writings for Syd Harrex 2015; (p. 88-105)
1 The Changing Face of Australian Literature : Some Multi-Cultural Novels Ron Shapiro , 1995-1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Commonwealth Review , vol. 7 no. 1 1995-1996; (p. 69-78)
The article discusses the Indo-Australian connection in three novels which focus on migrant characters and the issues of assimilation and integration. The author tries to 'signal the changes that have occurred within Australian society in the attitude towards non-European immigrants, but equally the changing attitudes of immigrants themselves towards Australia and Australians' (77).
1 Larrikinism and Ethel Turner's Fiction : The Sand-Patch and the Garden Ron Shepherd , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tilting at Matilda : Literature, Aborigines, Women and the Church in Contemporary Australia 1994; (p. 46-59)
1 Perceiving "The Other" in Patrick White's Fiction: Post-Colonialism and Vivisection Ron Shepherd , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Perceiving Other Worlds 1991; (p. 42-47)
1 Untitled Ron Shepherd , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Aumla , May no. 75 1991; (p. 110-113)

— Review of Patrick White : Fiction and the Unconscious David J. Tacey , 1988 single work criticism
1 Patrick White and the Moral Imperative (or, Tolerating the Critics) Ron Shepherd , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 2 1989; (p. 48-50)

— Review of Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction Laurence Steven , 1989 single work criticism
1 Obstinately Dreadful Ron Shepherd , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 1 & 2 1988; (p. 156-159)
Review of Margaret Chatterjee The Sound of Wings (1978), Kamala Das and Pritish Nandy Tonight, This Savage Rite (1984), Sunita Jain Beneath the Frost (1979), Lakshmi Kannan Exiled Gods (1985), H. K. Kaul On the Waves (1985), M. K. Kaw Look Closely at Om (1976), John Oliver Perry (ed.) Voices of Emergency: An All-India Anthology of Protest Poetry of the 1975-77 Emergency (1983) and Man Mohan Singh Village Poems (1982).
1 Powerful Statement Ron Shepherd , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 1 & 2 1988; (p. 151-152)
Review of Gopal Ghandi A Novel of Refuge (1987).
1 y separately published work icon The CRNLE Reviews Journal no. 1 & 2 1988 Z1175827 1988 periodical issue
1 Editor or Author? Ron Shepherd , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 2 1986; (p. 43-44)

— Review of Memoirs of Many in One Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray , 1986 single work novel
1 Untitled Ron Shepherd , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , March vol. 28 no. 1 1983; (p. 81-82)

— Review of New Guinea Images in Australian Literature 1982 anthology short story poetry extract prose bibliography
1 Growing Up: A Central Metaphor in some Recent Novels Ron Shepherd , 1982 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Writer's Sense of the Contemporary : Papers in Southeast Asian and Australian Literature 1982; (p. 51-54)
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