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- Contents indexed selectively.
- Includes essays with content outside AustLit's scope. These essays are written by J. M. Coetzee, Peter Conrads, Annabel Crabb, Tim Flannery, Andrew Ford, Robert Forster, Gideon Haigh, Simon Leys, Terence Maloon, David Marr, Drusilla Modjeska, Ann-Marie Priest and Angus Trumble.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Black Inc.
, 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Boxing for Palm Island, single work essay (p. 1-7)
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Silent Country : Travels through a Recovering Landscape,
single work
essay
(p. 8-24)Tim Winton re-visits the Western Australian wheatbelt and, after a period of depletion and degredation, discovers 'the country gaining strength again, fighting back' and is optimistic that there might a 'wider reptatriation' ahead.
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Darwin's Big Idea,
single work
essay
(p. 25-44)'EARLY in the morning of January 12, 1836, the young naturalist Charles Darwin, on board the Royal Navy's HMS Beagle, caught his first glimpse of Sydney Harbour and the fledgling colony of New South Wales. He expected wonders: but what he saw, as he wrote that day in his diary, was a level landscape, "bare and horizontal strata of sandstone, covered by woods of thin, scrubby trees that bespoke useless sterility". Darwin was close to his 27th birthday and fresh from the Galapagos Islands, his mind brimming with rich, strange impressions, an instinct for pattern and order coming alive inside his heart. ' (p25)
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Home Truths,
single work
criticism
(p. 51-71)
Watching the film Wake in Fright nearly 40 years after its release - 1971 - brought back one good memory for me of life in the bush. Canvas water bags. Nothing like the taste of water from those bags: sweet and earthy. One hangs on the back of a door in the shambles of a mining shack occupied by Doc Tydon, the movie's supposed villain. Not that anyone in the movie drinks water. Heaven forbid. Instead they neck beer and, in the case of Doc Tydon, glug down whiskey in the legendary quantities typical of men on a weekend bender in the Outback. Typical, I should also emphasise, of men the world over who work in isolated areas under punishing conditions, although the pursuit of the Holy Grail of alcoholic oblivion in the Outback is undertaken with an inexorable determination, not so much blunting pain as getting their due. Cracking a few cold ones with your mates - legacy, birthright, entitlement.
- Up from the Mission : Introduction, single work prose (p. 72-78)
- What're Yer Lookin' at Yer Fuckin' Dog? : Violence and Fear in Zizek's Post-Political Neighbourhood, single work essay (p. 79-99)
- Uncle Ross, single work essay (p. 106-110)
- Once a Financial Anchor, single work essay (p. 111-116)
- Why We Weren't Warned, single work essay (p. 148-165)
- How We Cheated Flames of Death, single work essay (p. 166-171)
- Laugh, Kookaburra, single work prose (p. 193-201)
- The Grand Illusion, single work column (p. 202-207)
- Amongst the Living Dead, single work essay autobiography (p. 208-214)
- The Element of Need, single work autobiography (p. 215-229)
- Death Duties, single work essay (p. 230-233)
- Grand Polonaise, single work essay (p. 241-248)
- Two Portraits, single work essay (p. 249-264)
- Ian Fairweather and Abstraction, single work essay (p. 280-285)
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Wider World in Their Sights,
single work
column
(p. 343-348)Geordie Williamson examines changes in Australians' perceptions regarding fiction not set in Australia. Focussing on Nam Le's The Boat, she begins with the reception of Christina Stead's writing and also mentions the work of M. J. Hyland, Christos Tsiolkas and J. M. Coetzee. Williamson concludes: 'There is something exhilarating about the speed with which our literary landscape has altered. Like some tax-free island haven, a globalised, transnational literature seems to have found in Australia a place of balmy breezes and light regulation and decided to make of it a home. For the moment, that is.'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
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Rewarding Journey into Inner Complexity
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 January 2010; (p. 16)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays 2009 2009 anthology essay column prose autobiography criticism -
Case of the Missing Mavericks
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 December 2009; (p. 31)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays 2009 2009 anthology essay column prose autobiography criticism -
Words to Conjure up Magic
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 December 2009; (p. 33)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays 2009 2009 anthology essay column prose autobiography criticism ; The Best Australian Stories 2009 2009 anthology short story extract
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Words to Conjure up Magic
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 December 2009; (p. 33)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays 2009 2009 anthology essay column prose autobiography criticism ; The Best Australian Stories 2009 2009 anthology short story extract -
Case of the Missing Mavericks
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 December 2009; (p. 31)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays 2009 2009 anthology essay column prose autobiography criticism -
Rewarding Journey into Inner Complexity
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 January 2010; (p. 16)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays 2009 2009 anthology essay column prose autobiography criticism
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