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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Nice Work If You Can Get It
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review ABR no. 128 February-March 1991 Z588593 1991 periodical issue 1991 pg. 22-28
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Oxford Book of Australian Essays Imre Salusinszky (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1997 Z380749 1997 anthology prose short story biography criticism humour satire

    'This collection contains 61 essays, including Helen Garners "The Fate of the First Stone", Robert Dessaix's "Nice Work If You Can Get it" and pieces by Charmian Clift, Germaine Greer, Clive James, David Malouf, Les Murray and Patrick White.'(Publication summary)

         Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1997     pg. 232-240
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Works about this Work

Challenging the Pieties Janet Chimonyo , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 September 1993; (p. 10A)
Against Multiculturalism : Rhetorical Images Sneja Gunew , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Typereader , Autumn no. 7 1992; (p. 28-43) Sneja Gunew responds to Dessaix's article by way of four concepts: host, guest/parasite, contagion and disease/noise. She writes: 'In Australia those who occupy the host's chair operate according to the time-honoured imperialist principle that possession is nine-tenths of the law. Those other displaced ones, guests by definition, are anxiety-provoking reminders of the unstable status of their hosts' (35).
Situating Bodies Beth Spencer , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Typereader , Autumn no. 7 1992; (p. 26-27) Beth Spencer argues that any debate regarding the ethnic identity of a writer needs to begin with an acknowledgement of the body and how a writer's body is situated by both physical and cultural traits.
Victims and Victimisers Efi Hatzimanolis , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Typereader , Autumn no. 7 1992; (p. 24-25) Efi Hatzimanolis argues that Dessaix's and Docker's objections to the terminologies of migrant and multicultural writing are related to anxieties of power reverals. If the feminist writer/critic resists the category of 'victim,' she is repositioned as 'victimiser' (25). Hatzimanolis insists that the debate needs to move beyond this binary thinking.
Cultural Critics and Foreign Agents Nikos Papastergiades , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Typereader , Autumn no. 7 1992; (p. 19-23) Nikos Papapastergiadis reads Robert Dessaix's critique of multicultural and migrant writing as an expression of anxiety regarding 'authentic Australian cultural criticism' and the role of 'foreign agents' (22, 23).
Producing 'A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers' Jan Mahyuddin , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Typereader , Autumn no. 7 1992; (p. 13-18) This article provides both a discussion of the issues involved in the production of 'A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers' and a rejoinder to Robert Dessaix's criticism of multicultural writing and writing produced in Australia in languages other than English.
Cultural Critics and Foreign Agents Nikos Papastergiades , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Typereader , Autumn no. 7 1992; (p. 19-23) Nikos Papapastergiadis reads Robert Dessaix's critique of multicultural and migrant writing as an expression of anxiety regarding 'authentic Australian cultural criticism' and the role of 'foreign agents' (22, 23).
Victims and Victimisers Efi Hatzimanolis , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Typereader , Autumn no. 7 1992; (p. 24-25) Efi Hatzimanolis argues that Dessaix's and Docker's objections to the terminologies of migrant and multicultural writing are related to anxieties of power reverals. If the feminist writer/critic resists the category of 'victim,' she is repositioned as 'victimiser' (25). Hatzimanolis insists that the debate needs to move beyond this binary thinking.
Situating Bodies Beth Spencer , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Typereader , Autumn no. 7 1992; (p. 26-27) Beth Spencer argues that any debate regarding the ethnic identity of a writer needs to begin with an acknowledgement of the body and how a writer's body is situated by both physical and cultural traits.
Against Multiculturalism : Rhetorical Images Sneja Gunew , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Typereader , Autumn no. 7 1992; (p. 28-43) Sneja Gunew responds to Dessaix's article by way of four concepts: host, guest/parasite, contagion and disease/noise. She writes: 'In Australia those who occupy the host's chair operate according to the time-honoured imperialist principle that possession is nine-tenths of the law. Those other displaced ones, guests by definition, are anxiety-provoking reminders of the unstable status of their hosts' (35).
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  • 1990s
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