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1 Melancholia Anja Schwarz , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , December vol. 25 no. 2 2019; (p. 259-261)
1 y separately published work icon Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Literatures Rudolf Bader (editor), Anja Schwarz (editor), Trier : WVT : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier , 2012 Z1910199 2012 single work criticism 'This second volume covers Australia, New Zealand and the Anglophone islands of the South Pacific, an area which spreads over a vast area of the globe and which - despite increased and still increasing global contacts through modern tourism, the internet and international business activities - still largely remains a relatively unknown territory for European readers. The reason for this lies not only in the geographical remoteness but also in the diversified historical recognition of the various ethnicities, societies, religions and linguistic outcomes of the British Empire. Moreover, a greater part of the more recent struggles of indigenous peoples of the region for cultural recognition has as yet hardly reached the consciousness of many European observers. This collection of texts hopes to assist the process of such deeper understanding and to foster further research and critical debates over issues raised by the cultural constellation of an area which, albeit remote, still has a great deal to offer to the rest of the world.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 [Review] The Secret River Anja Schwarz , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Zeitschrift fur Australienstudien , no. 24 2010; (p. 154-159)
— Review of The Secret River Kate Grenville , 2005 single work novel
1 Beached Identities : Inclusion and Exclusion of Histories in the Formation of the Beach as an Australian Spatial Icon Anja Schwarz , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 125-138) 'One of the predominant icons associated with Australia today is the beach, often considered to be a landscape of vital importance for the nation's identity. Its significance asserts itself not only in material culture but, as Meaghan Morris remarks, a 'vast anthology could be compiled of beach scenes from literature, cinema, photography, painting, theatre, television drama and documentary, newspapers and magazines.'...While it might be tempting to hail the beach as the site of an Australia finally arrived at its 'real' postcolonial identity, Richard White argued already in 1980 that 'images of national identity, rather than describing an especially Australian identity, grow out of assumptions about nature, race, class, democracy, sex and empire, and are 'invented' to serve the interests of particular groups. This essay takes up White's argument in asking who these 'particular groups' are in the context of the beach and investigates those mechanisms of exclusion that keep certain people and their histories from the 'imagined memory' (Pierre Nora) where certain histories are remembered whereas others are excluded from national memory thus facilitating the beach's unifying national appeal. Contrary to these ostracising readings, Mudrooroo's 1991 poem 'Beached Australian Party,' Anne Zahalka's beach photography and Simone Lazaroo's novel The World Waiting to be Made will be treated as attempts to recover these excluded histories. (Author's abstract p. 125)
1 1 y separately published work icon Polyculturalism and Discourse Russell West-Pavlov (editor), Anja Schwarz (editor), New York (City) Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2007 Z1565147 2007 anthology criticism
1 Mapping (Un-)Australian Identities: 'Territorial Disputes' in Christos Tsiolkas' Loaded Anja Schwarz , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Global Fragments : (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order 2007; (p. 13-27)
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