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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... vol. 41 no. 1 March 2017 of Journal of Australian Studies est. 1977 Journal of Australian Studies
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* Contents derived from the 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Pushing the Boundaries in Australian Studies., Maggie Nolan , Julie Kimber , single work criticism

'An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including young women of Australia, Indigenous music, and a book review of "Dreams of Speaking".' (Publication abstract)

(p. 1-2)
Farewell My Country? Hermannsburg, Gus Williams, and the Indigenised Heimatlied, Andrew W. Hurley , single work criticism
'This microhistory focuses on a little-known aspect of Indigenous musical life in the 1960s in the Lutheran Hermannsburg Mission (now Ntaria) in Central Australia. I contemplate the possible meanings arising when Gus and Rhonda Williams translated the secular German Heimat- cum-Wanderlied [song of home-cum-wandering], “Ade du mein Heimatland”, [Farewell to you my homeland], into Arrarnta as “Ade pmara nukai” [Farewell my country], and “presenced Indigeneity” for a predominantly non-Indigenous, southern audience. I explore how a German song became “travelling culture”; how it was received and modified to suit both missionary and Indigenous purposes, in the process both expressing a vernacularised Arrarnta Lutheranism, as well as maintaining music’s vital role in Indigenous culture, including as a signifier of love of country. I further examine how the song could have a political meaning in the nascent land rights context of the day, as an assertion of attachment to country or “Indigenous Heimat” that could resonate back, across a cultural divide, with a non-Indigenous Lutheran audience. ' (Publication abstract)
(p. 18-31)
The Mixed Temporalities of Transnationalism in Dreams of Speaking, Timothy Steains , single work criticism
'This article explores the mixed temporalities inherent in Gail Jones’s treatment of transnational grief in Dreams of Speaking(2006). I examine the novel’s interests in modernity and temporality and show how the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, in the novel, creates grief that is shared across national boundaries. The novel explores the coexistence of the modern and the unmodern, and Jones exemplifies this in the spectral nature of grief; it haunts the two protagonists throughout Dreams of Speaking. This article reads the coexistence of modernity and the unmodern alongside the ways in which Japan unsettles Eurocentric notions of colonial modernity (with its insistence on shared temporalities of progress) by having been a colonial power as well as by undertaking substantial modernisation in the postwar period. I employ Harry Harootunian’s notion of “mixed temporalities” to show the transnational dimensions in the cross-cultural interaction this novel facilitates. I compare the novel’s treatment of the bomb, and of temporality, to Salvador Dalí’sThe Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory(1954) and highlight the transnational sentiments in Jones’s treatments of the tropes of water and resonance.' (Publication abstract)
(p. 32-46)
Australian National Anthologies : A Study of Poems and Poets., Jim Berryman , Caitlin Stone , single work criticism
'This article analyses the contents of fifteen Australian “national” poetry anthologies published between 1946 and 2011. The study has three basic aims: to identify the most anthologised poems (as determined by the greatest number of inclusions in all anthologies), to identify poets with the most poems anthologised, and to identify the poets most consistently represented during this period. Based on quantitative data derived from each anthology’s table of contents, this article provides an empirical and analytical account of Australian national poetry anthologies over a six-decade period. The results reveal a core group of consistently anthologised poems and poets. While each anthology is different, there is a degree of consensus among national anthologists regarding the inclusion of “standard anthology pieces”. This article also considers the role of national anthologies in supporting a hierarchy of established literary reputations and perpetuating a poetic tradition in Australian literature. ' (Publication abstract)
(p. 47-64)
[Review Essay] Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women., Kristyn Harman , single work essay (p. 131-132)
[Review Essay] LOST Boys of Anzac, Bryce Abraham , single work essay (p. 133-135)

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