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Author:agent Anne Maxwell

Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Melancholy in Mudrooroo's Dr Wooreddy's Prescription

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The author writes: 'In this essay, I will focus on a recent Australian novel [Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the End of the World] to support my contention that the concept of melancholy was being employed by indigenous writers in the 1980s, at the very time postmodernism was gaining ascendancy, precisely because of its oppositional potential. At the same time, in using a text by an Aboriginal writer, I hope to be able to shed some light on the question of the universal appeal of melancholy' (63).

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y Australian Studies vol. 15 no. 2 Winter David Callahan (editor), London : Frank Cass Publishers , 2002 Z941634 2000 periodical issue Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature London : Frank Cass Publishers , 2002
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2002
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y Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature David Callahan (editor), Portland London : Frank Cass Publishers , 2002 6987733 2002 anthology criticism Abstract
'The contemporary study of Australian literature, as befitting that of a country that has been at the forefront of postcolonial studies, is a highly self-conscious and theoreticised enterprise, carried on now by academics across the globe and not just by Australians concerned to privilege a discourse of national assertion and specificity, as used to be the case. This volume accordingly deals with issues such as the tensions between literary and cultural studies, indigenous autobiography, postcolonial nostalgia, masculinity, the placing of Australia in the Pacific and in Asia, the uses of Australian literature in the United States, and includes the considerations of such widely-studied authors as Mudrooroo, Peter Carey and Patrick White.'
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Portland London : Frank Cass Publishers , 2002
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2002
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pg. 63-83