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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Resistance and Reconciliation : Writing in the Commonwealth
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Twenty-seven essays which 'raise important questions about race, class, gender, religion, politics and aesthetics in the lives of individuals and societies' and focus 'on writing as an act of resistance ... and also as a possible agent of reconciliation.' (Introduction, p.xi)

Notes

  • Papers from the 12th Triennial Conference of ACLALS held in Canberra in 2001.
  • Contents indexed selectively.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,:Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Legitimising the Personal Voice : Shame and the Stolen Generation Testimony, Kay Schaffer , single work criticism (p. 47-62)
Dominionisation or Infiltration : Religion and the Territorial Imperative in Post-Colonial Writing, Dorothy Lane , single work criticism (p. 114-129)
A Metahistory of Commonwealth National Literatures, Ken L. Goodwin , single work criticism (p. 130-151)
Reconciliation and Cultural (In)difference, Chris Prentice , single work criticism (p. 168-186)
Whose Singapore?, Dennis Haskell , single work criticism
Reviewing the two volumes of Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs, The Singapore Story (1998) and From Third World to First - the Singapore Story 1965-2000 (2000), and noting the pivotal role Lee has played in the building of the nation, Haskell observes a theme of protest and internationalism in the writing of the younger generation of Singaporean poets; a rejection of the authoritarianism with which Singapore has been governed.
(p. 236-247)
Resistance and Reconcilation in David Malouf's The Conversations at Curlow Creek, Stella Borgk Barthet , single work criticism (p. 265-277)
Aboriginal Identity and Representation in Ruby Langford's Don't Take Your Love to Town, S. K. Sareen , single work criticism (p. 278-287)
Mirroring Ambivalence : Resistance and Reconciliation in South Asian Australia, Makarand Paranjape , single work criticism (p. 288-307)
Making Strange Men : Resistance and Reconciliation in Kim Scott's Benang, Lisa Slater , single work criticism (p. 358-370)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Commonwealth Literature Clearly Alive and Well Peter Pierce , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 November 2003; (p. 2a)

— Review of Resistance and Reconciliation : Writing in the Commonwealth 2003 anthology criticism
Untitled Tseen-Ling Khoo , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 21 no. 2 2003; (p. 225-227)

— Review of Resistance and Reconciliation : Writing in the Commonwealth 2003 anthology criticism
Untitled Ken Gelder , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , October no. 19 2003;

— Review of Resistance and Reconciliation : Writing in the Commonwealth 2003 anthology criticism
Untitled Ken Gelder , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , October no. 19 2003;

— Review of Resistance and Reconciliation : Writing in the Commonwealth 2003 anthology criticism
Untitled Tseen-Ling Khoo , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 21 no. 2 2003; (p. 225-227)

— Review of Resistance and Reconciliation : Writing in the Commonwealth 2003 anthology criticism
Commonwealth Literature Clearly Alive and Well Peter Pierce , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 November 2003; (p. 2a)

— Review of Resistance and Reconciliation : Writing in the Commonwealth 2003 anthology criticism
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