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y separately published work icon Striking Chords : Multicultural Literary Interpretations anthology   criticism   prose   poetry   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Striking Chords : Multicultural Literary Interpretations
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Contents

* Contents derived from the North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Allen and Unwin , 1992 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Necessary Idiocy and the Idea of Freedom, Brian Castro , single work criticism biography

I would like to tell you a simple story. This story comes to me by way of Robert Bly, the American poet. Writers, he says, need to preserve their frogskins. Frog-skins, not foreskins; though writing can be something of a circumcision when forced into categories — some-thing between public ritual and private pain. To counteract this phallocentrism let me offer you the metaphor of writing as woman, not only as the re-pressed, but as the source. (Introduction)

 (p. 3-8)
Lines of Communication: Meaning in the Migrant Environment, Paul Carter , single work criticism

Paul Carter analyses migrant names and their significance for identity.

 (p. 9-18)
Fifth World, Kateryna Olijnyk Longley , single work criticism (p. 19-28)
Multicultural Aesthetics: A Preliminary Definition (for Gun Gencer and Nihat Ziyalan), Manfred Jurgensen , single work criticism (p. 29-35)
PMT (Post Modernist Tensions): Reading for (Multi)cultural Difference, Sneja Gunew , single work criticism (p. 36-46)
Statement, Antigone Kefala , single work criticism (p. 49-50)
Paradox of the Empty Socks (or, Slowing Down to Hurry Up), Peter Skrzynecki , single work prose (p. 51-54)
The Greek Dimensions of Australian Literature, Con Castan , single work criticism (p. 55-64)
About Multicultural Writing, Walter Adamson , single work criticism (p. 65-66)
Teething Pains, Maria Lewitt , single work criticism (p. 67-69)
The Literary and Paraliterary Expression of the Italo-Australian Migrant Experience, Gaetano Rando , single work criticism (p. 70-80)
Note: See also pp. 236-239
Neither Here Nor There, Left Nor Right Nor Centre: Functioning as a Multicultural Writer in Australia, Lolo Houbein , single work criticism autobiography (p. 81-85)
Multicultural Australian Literature and Me, Jim Kable , single work criticism (p. 86-91)
Life Makes Some Strange Connections, Lidija Šimkute , single work criticism (p. 92-95)
Writing from a Non-Anglo Perspective, Anna Couani , single work criticism (p. 96-98)
Before the Migrant Writer: Judah Waten and the Shaping of a Literary Career, David Carter , single work criticism (p. 101-110)
Letter in Response to a Questionnaire, Margaret Coombs , single work criticism (p. 111-114)
Mena Abdullah, Australian Writer, Yasmine Gooneratne , single work criticism (p. 115-124)
Instead of a Statement, Aina Vavere , single work criticism (p. 125-128)
`In Australia, We Read it Differently...' : Interculturality and the Theory of Literary Criticism, Walter F. Veit , single work criticism (p. 129-145)
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