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Petro Alexiou Petro Alexiou i(A22321 works by) (a.k.a. Petros Alexiou)
Born: Established: 1950
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Australia,
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Gender: Male
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1 ‘The Shadows of Black People Who Have Disappeared’ : Alekos Doukas's Interpretation of the Dying Native Fantasy Petro Alexiou , Andonis Piperoglou , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 53 no. 4 2022; (p. 584-602)

'Between the late 1920s and early 1960s, Alekos Doukas (1900–62), a Greek migrant and writer, engaged with the widely held belief that Australia's Indigenous people were a doomed race. By focusing on letters, articles, and fictional writing by Doukas – all of which were written in Greek – this article brings together histories of migration and histories of settler colonial thinking about Aboriginal people. Although, as we show, the pessimistic racialist views he expressed in them were largely consistent with the view that Aboriginal people were in a state of racial decline, his views also shifted, we argue, under the influence of a Marxist analysis of colonialism and his fleeting encounters with Aboriginal people. Doukas' writings show how the dominant story of Aboriginal racial decline could be learnt, confirmed, revised, and at times idiosyncratically interpreted by non-Anglo migrants living in Australia.' (Publication abstract)
1 Alekos Doukas (1900-1962). A Dis-Located Life in the Shifting Terrain of the Eastern Mediterranean Petro Alexiou , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transmediterranean : Diasporas, Histories, Geopolitical Spaces 2010; (p. 139-160) 'This chapter aims to delineate an approach to the Eastern Mediterranean as a location for intellectual and ideological movements, as well as historical events, that impinged on, and to a large extent, shaped the early life and thinking of an historical subject, Alekos Doukas who emigrated to Australia from Greece in 1927. [...] This exercise in discursive history and biographical narrative may help us grasp the apparent contradictions and paradoxes that mark the entry point of such a subject into White Australia in the late 1920s, another important intersection of tangential but related discourses of a dominant white colonial society and the Greek diaspora in the antipodes.' [pp. 139, 140]
1 A Talk On Martin Johnston Petro Alexiou , 2000 single work obituary (for Martin Johnston )
— Appears in: Jacket , April no. 11 2000; This talk was originally given at the Harold Park Hotel in March 1994 as part of a literary evening "Voyage to Ithaka: A Celebration of the Life and Poetry of Martin Johnston (1947-1990)" organised by the 12th Greek Festival of Sydney, Australia. It was revised for publication in December 1998.
1 y separately published work icon Misokolaki Petro Alexiou , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1989 23111977 1989 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon From the Land of Ikaros Petro Alexiou , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1989 23111451 1989 single work children's fiction children's
1 Broken Line (Dedication to My Father) i "In your seventy-ninth year", Yota Krili-Kevans , 1987 single work poetry
— Appears in: I Logotechniki Parousia ton Ellinon stin Afstralia 1987; (p. 388-389)
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