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'Nearly fifty years ago, the Australian government sent thirty military advisers to
South Vietnam, thereby initiating a commitment to a war which was to last for over a decade.
Altogether, nearly 47,000 Australians, including 17,500 national servicemen served in Vietnam;
500 died and 2500 were wounded. Almost as disturbing as the results of the battlefield were the
shockwaves that reverberated throughout Australian society, for the war years turned out to be
one of the most turbulent periods in the nation’s history. The events of these tumultuous years
are examined in five little-known Australian women’s fictions—Nuri Maas’s 1971 As Much a
Right to Live, Janine Burke’s 1984 Speaking, Wendy Scarfe’s 1984 Neither Here Nor There and
her 1988 Laura, My Alter Ego: A Novel of Love, Loyalty and Conscience, and Patricia
Cornelius’s 2002 My Sister Jill. Together these texts chronicle the politicization of Australian
youth, recount the kinds of overt challenges to the traditional standards of masculinity which had
prevailed in Australian society since its inception, and document the emergence of the secondwave
feminist movement.' Source: Donna Coates.
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'All We Are Saying Is Give Peace a Chance' : The Vietnam War Protest Movement in Australian Women’s Fictions by Janine Burke, Patricia Cornelius, Nuri Maas, and Wendy Scarfe
Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia
Subjects:
- As Much Right to Live 1971 single work novel
- Speaking : A Novel 1984 single work novel
- Neither Here nor There : A Novel 1984 single work novel
- Laura : My Alter Ego : A Novel of Love, Loyalty and Conscience 1988 single work novel
- My Sister Jill 2002 single work novel
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