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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Australian Studies Now : An Introductory Reader in Australian Studies
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Contents

* Contents derived from the New Delhi,
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Indialog Publications , 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Foreword, Makarand Paranjape , single work criticism (p. ix-xiii)
The Critical Scene : Responses On/From Down Under, Amit Sarwal , Reema Sarwal , single work criticism (p. 30-47)
Re-mapping the Heterotopic: A Study of Peter Goldsworthy's Three Dog Night, Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay , single work criticism (p. 49-60)
The Australian Ghazal: Reading Judith Wright, Anisur Rahman , single work criticism
Rahman argues that in writing 'The Shadow of Fire' sequence, Wright exhibited a 'major variation on the style of her later poetry. In writing her ghazal she has written a new kind of poem, and in writing that poem she has evolved a new ghazal.'
(p. 61-70)
Oodgeroo and Hembrom : Voices of the Dispossessed, Angshuman Kar , single work criticism
Compares Aboriginal poetry to the Santali poetry of India.
(p. 71-83)
Reconciliation? Aboriginality and Australian Theatre in the 1990s, Helen Gilbert , single work criticism
Helen Gilbert considers a wide range of Aboriginal theatre produced in the 1990s, tracing the various articulations of Aboriginality in these performances and how, in spite of difficulties and frustrations, they opened up a space for 'productive dialogue' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.
(p. 85-108)
Writing Home : Nineteenth-Century British Migrant Journals and Letters, Andrew Hassam , single work criticism (p. 204-220)
Cooees Cross the Strand : Australian Travellers in London and the Performance of National Identity, Richard White , single work prose
The cooee was arguably the Europeans' earliest widespread cultural appropriation from indigenous Australians. This article examines the particular circumstances - in literature and music - in which the cooee call took on self-consciously nationalistic meanings, signalling the process whereby Australian identity was forged out of the relationship between Australia and Britain.
(p. 221-245)
'She'll Be Right, Mate' : Multiculturalism and the Culture of Benign Neglect, Wenche Ommundsen , single work criticism
Noting that 'Thirty years after its introduction, the meaning, impact and politics of multiculturalism are still contested issues in Australia', the author aims 'to examine some of the concepts, metaphors and rhetorical strategies commonly deployed in contemporary political discourse in order to tease out the complexity, or, to put it more bluntly, conceptual muddle, informing the construction of multiculturalism in Australian public debate' (Australian Cultural History Vol:28 No:2/3, 2010, p.131).
(p. 275-286)
A Family Closeness? : Australia, India, Indonesia, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 328-341)
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