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* Contents derived from the 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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'Opportunistic Transpositions and Elisions' : Roger McDonald's The Ballad of Desmond Kale; or, the Fiction Question : Who Owns Stories?,
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criticism
Using the relationship between history and fiction as a starting point, the essay first looks at constructions of nationhood and national identity, a 'fantasy of Australia as the site of a privileged and realised good'. 'In accepting and supporting the fantasy of Australia as quintessentially free and equal, such constructions of national identity camouflage, at the same time as they enable, the aggression to and rejection of the Other that underlies white Australian society, historicall and today' (89). Focussing on McDonald's Ballad of Desmond Kale, the essay explores the 'dark underbelly' of such constructions of nationhood in stories.
- Swanki"The City Cat's a vaporetto;", single work poetry (p. 96)
- If I Stopi"When the unknown feeling from the hinterland", single work poetry (p. 97)
- The Still Point, single work short story (p. 98-101)
- Colombo : Day Leavei"His pockets bulged. The city", single work poetry (p. 102)
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Literature and the Intimate Space of Death,
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criticism
The essay examines imaginative strategies employed in the attempt to represent the experience of death. Some of Maurice Blanchot's theories about death and dying are utilised to 'negotiate the spaces of absence and death' that inform Alex Miller's The Sitters and Noel Rowe's poem 'Next to Nothing'.
- Woolshed Fallsi"Matilda calls: the Ute's back!", single work poetry (p. 109)
- The Man Whose Wife Has Told Him to Leavei"is camping with his daughters", single work poetry (p. 110)
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The Extraordinary in the Ordinary : Kate Llewellyn's Self-Portrait of a Lemon,
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criticism
In her discussion of Llewellyn's poem 'Lemon' Collett argues that the author uses the image of the lemon to 'reveal the ordinary life as essentially interesting and valuable, not only for its idiosyncratic nature ... but also for its commonality and communality' (113).
- Canadian Creeki"If someone had described a creek as looking", single work poetry (p. 116)
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Sacred Violence in the Chamberlain Case,
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essay
In the early 1980s, many Australians demanded their say about 'Lindy Chamberlain'. On radio, in letters to the media, over coffee and on television, we exposed our wisdoms about mothering, matricide, inappropriate family holiday destinations, religious sects, the dressing of children in black, the desert, the law, and the requirements of justice. Australians - not for the first time - eagerly devoured tales of uncanny happenings in the desert. In the heart of the county, at Ayres Rock as it was still called, a sacrifice of some kind had occurred. 'Why would you take a child out there?' 'As if a dingo could do that!'
- In Defence of Hawaiian Shirtsi"Too many uniforms mean a country's turning dangerous,", single work poetry (p. 122)
- 'No Last Words' : Postcolonial Witnessing in Jackson's Track and Jackson's Track Revisited, single work criticism (p. 123-128)
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White Settlers/Big City : Mimicry and the Metropolis in Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab,
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criticism
The article examines the representation of colonial metropolitan and suburban Melbourne in Hume's novel. The author argues that the novel 'changes the way the white colony of Australia could be imagined, or romanced, at the imperial center' (129).
- Abandoned Cari"This is its last garage", single work poetry (p. 137)
- Managing the Mountaini"There are many different kinds of maps:", single work poetry (p. 138)
- A Man and His Dogi"When he told the blokes at the pub he was moving his family-", single work poetry (p. 139)
- The Crocodile Hunter's Wife, single work short story (p. 140-144)
- Meeting Janet Frame, single work column (p. 145-153)
- A Rare Stillnessi"a rare stillness", single work poetry (p. 154)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2009
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 38)
— Review of Antipodes vol. 22 no. 2 December 2008 periodical issue
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Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 38)
— Review of Antipodes vol. 22 no. 2 December 2008 periodical issue
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