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Issue Details:
First known date:
2000...
vol.
7
no.
2
October
2000
of
Queensland Review
est. 1994
Queensland Review
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'The year 2000 has seen the death of two individuals who played important roles in shaping the literature and culture of Queensland in the twentieth century: Judith Wright and Sir Theodor Bray. Queensland Review begins its second issue for the year with reflections on the lives of these two figures. In 'Judith Wright: A Memoir in Parenthesis and Three Parts', Alison Cotes muses on the transformative impact of Judith Wright on Australian literature and the whitefella psyche. Patrick Buckridge draws on his acquaintance with the formidable wartime editor ofthe Courier-Mail and founding Chancellor of Griffith University in 'Memories of Sir Theodor Bray', emphasising Bray's enthusiasm for connecting the academy with the public sphere.' (Editorial)
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Contents
* Contents derived from the 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Judith Wright : A Memoir in Parenthesis and Three Parts,
single work
obituary
(p. 1-3)
'1. Judith Wright was the first real poet I ever met.
I'd come down to The University of Queensland to finish a degree, after seven years of isolation in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, and 1 was as wide-eyed as a schoolgirl at this sophisticated new world of culture and scholarship. (All this was a long time ago, 1 remember, but set down this, set down this...)' (Introduction)
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Memories of Sir Theodor Bray,
single work
obituary
(p. 5-7)'I first met Sir Theodor Bray about 25 years ago in the bar at the Johnsonian Club in Brisbane where my father had taken me for lunch, in the formal way he occasionally did. Bray would have been just over seventy at the time.' (Introduction)
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Writing in Brisbane during the Second World War : A Panel Discussion,
Patrick Buckridge
(interviewer),
single work
autobiography
(p. 9-24)
'As far as the Queensland Studies Centre is concerned, this session follows on from a conference that we put on in Townsville at the beginning· of July this year at James Cook University as part of the Australia Remembers program. When John Collins asked if the Centre would be interested in organising a session of this kind on a similar topic, I jumped at the chance. It seemed like a great opportunity to explore a literature - and more broadly a cultural milieu, that of the Second World War, particularly in Brisbane - which I think we have forgotten about rather too soon, and perhaps have never found out about it in enough detail.' (Preamble)
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Troubled Homecomings : Rosa Praed and Lemuria,
single work
criticism
(p. 25-36)'This paper has many beginnings. My interest in Rosa Praed's involvements with spiritualism and theosophy has taken me into the nineteenth century literatures and practices of spiritualism, to debates about the specification of human nature and human origins and to the recent literature on the administration and regulation of populations in the cities at the centre of Empire and the colonial periphery. But my thinking about Lemuria had been caught up with the 'nowhere' of Utopian discourse.' (Introduction)
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'The Modern Athens' : The Literary Culture of Colonial Ipswich,
single work
criticism
(p. 37-45)'When the Ipswich Punch described colonial Ipswich as ‘the Modem Athens of the North’ (quoted in Deppeler-Hagan 1999: 28), it endowed the fledgling city with the image of a strong cultural background based on the traditions of Europe. However, the literary culture which existed in that period could not reflect all that the appellation might imply. Some of the town's inhabitants may have been educated in England and brought knowledge of European literature and thought to the new colony, but many were more concerned with earning a living than with cultivating their minds.' (Extract)
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Constructing a Life on the Northern Frontier : E.A.C. Olive of Cooktown,
single work
biography
(p. 47-65)'Repeated 'boom and bust' phenomena have characterised the history of Queensland as a colony and state. In terms of infrastructure and cultural institutions, this has led to significant discontinuities: vital strategic centres of colonial power, such as Cooktown, now languish in relative obscurity and the role of their inhabitants as authors and agents of colonialism receives little attention. This study investigates the life of an early inhabitant of Cooktown, E.A.C. Olive, in the context of his location on Australia's northern frontier.' (Extract)
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Close to the Edge : Imagining Climbing in Southeast Queensland,
single work
essay
(p. 67-83)In 1992, the Climbing World Finals event in Birmingham attracted around 5,000 spectators to watch 24 males and 16 females compete in two separate competitions for prize money. In this entertainment spectacular, super-fit young athletes climbed walls using artificial hand and footholds, racing against the clock to determine who would claim the title of the world's 'best' climber. In the same year, climbing appeared as a demonstration sport at the Albertville Winter Olympics. And also in the same year, the first indoor climbing gymnasium in Australia opened its climbing wall. There are now around 80 operating around the country under the auspices of the Australian Indoor Climbing Gyms Association Incorporated.
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[Review] Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland,
single work
review
— Review of Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland 1999 single work non-fiction ;(p. 107-108)'In these times of racial tension, I sometimes find myself imagining the kind of book our current Prime Minister should read to begin escaping from his myopia about the present and amnesia about the past. I am referring, of course, to his stubbornly maintained innocence about the intrinsic nature of Australian race relations; his touching faith that somehow white mateship conquers all and his peculiar conclusion that those who expose racism in their research are somehow its instigators.' (Introduction)
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