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1 Home Hogar i "Where my heart sings,", Tara Goedjen , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Story Circle : The Transnational Story Hub and the Inspiraciones Literarias Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 44.0 2013;
1 Tools i "he story they tell here says that the river was formed when the god who", Tara Goedjen , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Story Circle : The Transnational Story Hub and the Inspiraciones Literarias Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 44.0 2013;
1 Thin Top End Tara Goedjen , Caroline Graham , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 18 2013;
1 Local Myths in a Global World: Merlinda Bobis' 'White Turtle' Tara Goedjen , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 2 2012; When a Filipina storyteller gives a performance at a writers' festival in Sydney, a mystical white turtle from her native homeland appears in the room, beguiling both audience and storyteller. Merlinda Bobis' 'White Turtle' interrogates the ways in which different cultures react to 'uncanny' narratives - those tales situated between the real and the imaginary, the familiar and unfamiliar. In doing so, the story calls into question our relationships with Self and Other, Self and Self. This paper traces the geographical and mythical trajectories of 'White Turtle', where distinct currents of Asian regionalism and Australian nationalism are linked by a shared, bodily experience of the uncanny, which, in this case, can be categorized as Other. More broadly, the notion of Other (may it be another nation, race, collective unconscious/mythic template, or state of existence) intertwines with the concept of the 'transnational imagination' - a boundless imaginary space where anything becomes possible, including the entrance of a giant white turtle bearing the dreams of dead children. This paper follows Bobis' character, the storyteller Lola Basyon, who travels from the Philippines to Australia, crossing more than geographical borders along the way. Much as the white turtle she conjures totes its shell, Lola inherently carries the myths and traditions of her country into the belief systems and stories of other nations, cultures, minds and bodies - that global flow of the world beyond. [Author's abstract]
1 Arthur's Bath Tara Goedjen , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , 30 July no. 207.5 2012;
1 The Recent Dead Tara Goedjen , 2010 single work short story
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 10 no. 4 2010;
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