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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 A Foreign Wife
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: He xene nyphe
Language: Greek
    • Richmond, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,: Spring Press , 1988 .
      Extent: 207p.
      ISBN: 0947093206 (pbk)

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  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Australian ‘Immersion’ Narratives : Memoirs of Contemporary Language Travel Mary Besemeres , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009; (p. 245-257)
Mary Besmeres examines 'three Australian texts—Gillian Bouras's A Foreign Wife (1986), Sarah Turnbull's Almost French: A New Life in Paris (2002) and John Mateer's Semar's Cave: An Indonesian Journal (2004)—drawing attention to what appear to be some common cultural assumptions in the authors' accounts of their interactions with speakers of languages other than English.' (p. 245)
y separately published work icon States of Imagination : Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Australian and Southern Asian Literature John McLaren , New Delhi : Prestige Books Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2001 Z954104 2001 single work criticism
Interview of Gillian Bouras by Jena Woodhouse Jena Woodhouse (interviewer), 1994 single work interview
— Appears in: Australian Multicultural Book Review , vol. 2 no. 1 1994; (p. 37-43)
Going Greek Without Drowning in the Styx Murray Waldren , 1991 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 April 1991; (p. rev 4)
Untitled Helen Nickas , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , July no. 21 1987; (p. 71-73)

— Review of A Foreign Wife Gillian Bouras , 1986 single work autobiography
Untitled Helen Nickas , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , July no. 21 1987; (p. 71-73)

— Review of A Foreign Wife Gillian Bouras , 1986 single work autobiography
It's Who You Are, Not Where You Live Patrick Morgan , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 88 1987; (p. 10-11)

— Review of A Foreign Wife Gillian Bouras , 1986 single work autobiography
Australian Migrants, Home and Abroad Sandy Murray , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 January 1987;

— Review of A Foreign Wife Gillian Bouras , 1986 single work autobiography
Australian ‘Immersion’ Narratives : Memoirs of Contemporary Language Travel Mary Besemeres , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009; (p. 245-257)
Mary Besmeres examines 'three Australian texts—Gillian Bouras's A Foreign Wife (1986), Sarah Turnbull's Almost French: A New Life in Paris (2002) and John Mateer's Semar's Cave: An Indonesian Journal (2004)—drawing attention to what appear to be some common cultural assumptions in the authors' accounts of their interactions with speakers of languages other than English.' (p. 245)
Interview of Gillian Bouras by Jena Woodhouse Jena Woodhouse (interviewer), 1994 single work interview
— Appears in: Australian Multicultural Book Review , vol. 2 no. 1 1994; (p. 37-43)
Greek by Marriage Beverley Farmer , 1986 single work
— Appears in: The Age , 4 October 1986; (p. 10)
Going Greek Without Drowning in the Styx Murray Waldren , 1991 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 April 1991; (p. rev 4)
y separately published work icon States of Imagination : Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Australian and Southern Asian Literature John McLaren , New Delhi : Prestige Books Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2001 Z954104 2001 single work criticism
Last amended 16 Jan 2009 14:48:27
Subjects:
  • Urban,
  • c
    Greece,
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • c
    Australia,
    c
  • 1980s
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