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Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars—historians, literary critics, and museologists—trace the flow of people that helped shape Australia’s distinctive character and the flow of ideas that connected Australians to a global community of thought. It shows how biography, and the study of life stories, can contribute greatly to our understanding of such patterns of connection and explores how transnationalism can test biography’s limits as an intellectual, professional and commercial practice.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Acton,
Inner Canberra,
Canberra,
Australian Capital Territory,:ANU E Press
, 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Old Commodore : A Transnational Life, single work biography (p. 3-18)
- Biography and Global History : Reflections on Examining Colonial Governance through the Life of Edward Eyre, single work biography (p. 21-39)
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From Cosmopolitan Romance to Transnational Fiction : Re-reading Jean Devanny’s Australian Novels,
single work
criticism
(p. 215-228)'When Jean Devanny (1894-1962) left New Zealand in 1929 bound for Sydney, she considered Australia 'merely a transit point' and planned to travel on to England, believing it to be 'a more favourable location for a novelist'. Devanny gradually came to accept Australia as her home, as Carole Ferrier argues, because of her 'double commitment' to the Communist Party of Australia and to her development as a writer. While Ferrier's pioneering scholarship and definitive biography offer invaluable insights into Devanny's life and writing, I will suggest another perspective on both by exploring how her experiences in Australia transformed her into a 'transnational' subject. (p.
215) -
Paris and Beyond : The Transnational/National in the Writing of Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark,
single work
criticism
(p. 229-244)Susan Carson examines ways in which the Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark conceptualised transnational experiences in their fiction and negotiated the complexities of their own relationships with 'home'.
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Australian ‘Immersion’ Narratives : Memoirs of Contemporary Language Travel,
single work
criticism
(p. 245-257)Mary Besmeres examines 'three Australian texts—Gillian Bouras's A Foreign Wife (1986), Sarah Turnbull's Almost French: A New Life in Paris (2002) and John Mateer's Semar's Cave: An Indonesian Journal (2004)—drawing attention to what appear to be some common cultural assumptions in the authors' accounts of their interactions with speakers of languages other than English.' (p. 245)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , June vol. 26 no. 68 2011; (p. 239-242)
— Review of Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009 anthology criticism biography
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , June vol. 26 no. 68 2011; (p. 239-242)
— Review of Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009 anthology criticism biography
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