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Alternative title:
What is Australia For?
Issue Details:
First known date:
2012...
no.
36
Winter
2012
of
Griffith Review
est. 2003-
Griffith Review
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Contents
* Contents derived from the 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- A Question with Many Answers, single work criticism (p. 7-10) Section: Introduction
- If You Know Bourke You Know Australia, single work autobiography (p. 11-25)
- Kartiya are Like Toyotas : White Workers on Australia's Cultural Frontier, single work essay (p. 26-46)
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Pissed Off,
single work
essay
'AUSTRALIA, any city, Saturday night: red unsteady men in pastel shirts and designer sneakers have groping sweaty fists and angry eyes; bored tall thin men in black jeans, pointed leather shoes and structured mullets stand in copses holding conspicuously cheap beer. Lone middle-aged men in tight shirts with tattooed biceps stretch jewelled fingers and survey the crowd. Eighteen-year-old men travel in excited, sexed-up packs.' (Author's introduction)
- The Best in the World, single work essay (p. 72-79)
- Paradox of Identity, single work criticism (p. 81-89)
- Looking for Utopia, single work autobiography (p. 90-96)
- My Sweet Canary, single work essay (p. 105-117)
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Cultural Creep,
single work
criticism
'TODAY it would be called a reality show, but in the early 1950s the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Incognito was billed as light entertainment. Alas, no recording of the radio program survives in the corporation's vast audio archive. Nor does it earn a mention in Ken Inglis's two-volume authorised history of the ABC. Yet Incognito is one of the most influential programs the national broadcaster has ever put to air, if only because it caught the ear of the Melbourne-based critic AA Phillips. The idea, thought Phillips, was quaint enough: to pit a local artist against a foreign guest, with the audience asked to adjudicate. Occasionally, listeners would favour the home-grown performer, thus producing 'a nice glow of patriotic satisfaction'. The program, however, was founded on the belittling premise that 'the domestic product will be worse than the imported article.' Phillips coined a neat description for this 'disease of the Australian mind' and immediately his aphorism, described in a 1950 Meanjin essay of the same name, took hold: 'the cultural cringe'.' (Author's introduction)
- The L-Word, single work autobiography (p. 132-142)
- The Basin, single work short story (p. 166-176)
- Mentioning the War, single work essay (p. 183-192)
- Half Chinese, Half Australian, single work autobiography (p. 193-202)
- Such is Life in Beijing, single work diary (p. 203-216)
- Red Truths and White Lies, single work criticism (p. 217-225)
- Andrew Bolt's Disappointment, single work essay (p. 226-233)
- The Cosmic Incident Report, single work autobiography (p. 234-237)
- Oxtales, single work short story (p. 251-261)
- The Good War, single work autobiography
- On Being Australian, single work essay Section: http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-121815-20130922-0000-griffithreview.com/edition-36-what-is-australia-for/index.html
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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In Short : Nonfiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5-6 May 2012; (p. 35)
— Review of Horace Dean : A Pocketful of Lies 2011 single work biography ; Griffith Review no. 36 Winter 2012 periodical issue
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In Short : Nonfiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5-6 May 2012; (p. 35)
— Review of Horace Dean : A Pocketful of Lies 2011 single work biography ; Griffith Review no. 36 Winter 2012 periodical issue
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