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Touching Tiananmen single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Touching Tiananmen
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The House of Breathing Gail Jones , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1992 Z508629 1992 selected work short story (taught in 2 units)

    'The invasion of East Timor, the sinking of the Titanic, Freud's encounter with an "imbecile dwarf," astronomy, pregnancy, Tiananmen Square, a remote Aboriginal community: these historical episodes and narratives inspire the fourteen superb and engaging short stories in The House of Breathing, winner of four major Australian literary prizes. Concerned with the extremes of human experience, Jones's stories give fictional form to a wide range of philosophical concerns: cultural imperialism, political and sexual repression, the impact of modern technology on culture and consciousness.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (US ed.)

    Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1992
    pg. 130-139
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s Laurie Hergenhan (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1986 Z380969 1986 anthology short story (taught in 13 units) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994 pg. 312-320
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s Laurie Hergenhan (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1986 Z380969 1986 anthology short story (taught in 13 units) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2002 pg. 377-387
Subjects:
  • Beijing,
    c
    China,
    c
    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • c
    China,
    c
    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
Settings:
  • 1990s
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