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Notes
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Joint issue comprising Westerly 46 and Salt 13.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Prospect of Grace, single work short story (p. 7-16)
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Entangled Worlds : Australia and its Contexts in Recent Non-fiction,
single work
review
— Review of The Devil and James McAuley 1999 single work criticism ; Prosthetic Gods : Travel, Representation and Colonial Governance 2001 selected work criticism ; Damaged Men : The Precarious Lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart 2001 single work criticism biography ; The Colonial Earth 2000 single work non-fiction ; Hearts and Minds : Creative Australians and the Environment 2000 single work criticism ; The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature 2000 anthology criticism ; The Oxford Literary History of Australia 1998 anthology criticism ; Investigations in Australian Literature 2000 selected work criticism ; Authority and Influence : Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000 2001 anthology criticism extract ; Woman and Herself : A Critical Study of the Works of Barbara Hanrahan 1998 single work criticism ; Studies of Indeterminacy in the Australian Novel 1999 single work criticism ; The Shapes of Glory : The Writings of Peter Steele 2000 single work criticism ; Imagining Australian Space : Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry 1999 anthology criticism essay ; The Postcolonial Exotic : Marketing the Margins 2001 multi chapter work ; Forrest, 1847-1918. 1847-91, Apprenticeship to Premiership 1971 single work biography ; Anxious Nation : Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850-1939 1999 single work ; Caged : The Landau Manuscript 1999 single work autobiography ; Finding Theodore and Brina 2001 single work novel ; Remarkable Occurrences : The National Library of Australia's First 100 Years 1901-2001 2001 anthology criticism ; The Boyer Collection : Highlights of the Boyer Lectures : 1959-2000 2001 anthology extract criticism ; Fairly Obsessive : Essays on the Works of John Kinsella 2000 anthology criticism ; (p. 17-32) - Tallow's Beachi"Byron Bay, a back street at night.", single work poetry (p. 33-35)
- Secret Sydneyi"In Glebe we swung past frangipannied terraces", single work poetry (p. 36)
- This One was Different, single work short story (p. 37-45)
- Effortlessly Secondaryi"I stand at the bedroom door in our dark", single work poetry (p. 46)
- The Cicadai"The cicada weaves its voice through the forest.", single work poetry (p. 47)
- White, White Moon through the Windowi"My bed lies empty, lost to clear dust.", single work poetry (p. 47)
- A Lovely Girl's Lonelinessi"A maiden with cinnabar lips and slim fingers", single work poetry (p. 47)
- Ten Poems in the Style of the Liang, sequence poetry (p. 47-50)
- In the Valley of The Secret Orchidi"The valley teems with sweet orchids.", single work poetry (p. 48)
- Envyi"In the Jasper bedroom I hear bangles chinking.", single work poetry (p. 48)
- Pity me!i"Pity me! I was not born a man.", single work poetry (p. 48)
- Infidelityi"How attractive! someone else's wife,", single work poetry (p. 49)
- A Woman once Beautiful has Grown Oldi"Stars sink below the garden walls.", single work poetry (p. 49)
- The Faith of the Ibisi"The beak of the Ibis is as fine as two thin swords.", single work poetry (p. 49-50)
- Freedomi"I am a tiny dot in the night, braving the far road.", single work poetry (p. 50)
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East or West : An Inquiry into Identity in Today's Chinese Literature,
single work
essay
This essay focuses on aspects of identity expressed in the development of Chinese literature during the 1980s and 1990s. The sub-headings are: Weakening of Political Significance, Growing Modernist Influences, The Function of Market Forces, Contributions of Tradition, and Feminism.
- Untitledi"Summer night. The sky laden with great star fruit", single work poetry (p. 61)
- Monsooni"It's a miracle that anything grows here at all.", single work poetry (p. 62)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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A Question of Focus and Identity
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 February 2002; (p. 7)
— Review of Meanjin vol. 60 no. 4 2001 periodical issue ; Island no. 87 Spring 2001 periodical issue ; Westerly vol. 46 no. November 2001 periodical issue ; Overland no. 165 Summer 2001 periodical issue
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A Question of Focus and Identity
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 February 2002; (p. 7)
— Review of Meanjin vol. 60 no. 4 2001 periodical issue ; Island no. 87 Spring 2001 periodical issue ; Westerly vol. 46 no. November 2001 periodical issue ; Overland no. 165 Summer 2001 periodical issue
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