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Dedication: For my dear mother and father, Hoddes and Meier; and for all those ho seek refuge regardless of race, nation and creed.
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- Also braille, sound recording.
Works about this Work
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“Storytelling Is an Ancient Art” : Stories, Maps, Migrants and Flâneurs in Arnold Zable’s Selected Texts
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Anglica : An International Journal of English Studies , vol. 28 no. 3 2019; (p. 109-123)'Nadine Fresco in her research on exiled Holocaust survivors uses the term diaspora des cendres (1981) to depict the status of Jewish migrants whose lives are forever marked by their tragic experience as well as a conviction that “the[ir] place of origins has gone up in ashes” (Hirsch 243). As a result, Jewish migrants and their children have frequently resorted to storytelling treated as a means of transferring their memories, postmemories and their condition of exile from the destroyed Eastern Europe into the New World. Since “[l]iterature of Australians of Polish-Jewish descent holds a special place in Australian culture” (Kwapisz Williams 125), the aim of this paper is to look at selected texts by one of the greatest Jewish-Australian storytellers of our time: Arnold Zable and analyse them according to the paradigm of an exiled flâneur whose life concentrates on wandering the world, sitting in a Melbourne café, invoking afterimages of the lost homeland as well as positioning one’s status on a map of contemporary Jewish migrants. The analyses of Zable’s Jewels and Ashes (1991) and Cafe Scheherazade (2001) would locate Zable as a memoirist as well as his fictional characters within the Australian community of migrants who are immersed in discussing their un/belonging and up/rootedness. The analysis also comprises discussions on mapping the past within the context of the new territory and the value of storytelling.' (Publication abstract)
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The Spoor of Scattered Memories : Journeys, Landscapes and Identities in Australian Transcultural Life Writing
2009
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criticism
— Appears in: Ariel , October vol. 40 no. 4 2009; (p. 109-127) -
Home and Horizon
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Diaspora : The Australasian Experience 2005; (p. 45-58) Ashcroft discusses the conceptual and actual boundaries which contain/construct the notion of 'home'. He suggests that 'home' is deeply connected to a sense of self and 'like that sense of self, "home" brings with it the inescapable tyranny of limits, of borders. Whether home is a place, a location, a feeling, a tradition, an ethnicity, it carries with it the sometimes imperceptible, but ever-present reality of boundaries'. He illustrates this argument with examples from Arnold Zable's Jewels and Ashes (1991) and Ameican writer Toni Morrison's Paradise (1998) as well as a number of critical texts. -
First Voice : Arnold Zable Looks Back on the Writing of His First Book
2005
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— Appears in: The Age , 10 December 2005; (p. 30) -
Generations of Journeys
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Speaking to Immigrants : Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration 2002; (p. 149-169)
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Always with the Remembering
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , April/May no. 10 1994; (p. 54-56)
— Review of Jewels and Ashes 1991 biography ; Inside Outside : Life Between Two Worlds 1992 single work autobiography -
Diaspora Goes Long Way
1991
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review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 8 October vol. 113 no. 5790 1991; (p. 106)
— Review of Homeland 1991 anthology short story prose poetry criticism ; Jewels and Ashes 1991 biography -
Family Realities Make the Most Convincing Fiction
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 July 1991; (p. rev 4)
— Review of Jewels and Ashes 1991 biography ; Playback 1991 single work novel ; Speaking with the Sun : New Stories from Australian and New Zealand Writers 1991 anthology short story -
Forecasts
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , May vol. 70 no. 1015 1991; (p. 19-20)
— Review of Jewels and Ashes 1991 biography -
Grim Beauty of a Sad Search
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 July 1991; (p. 8)
— Review of Jewels and Ashes 1991 biography -
First Voice : Arnold Zable Looks Back on the Writing of His First Book
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 10 December 2005; (p. 30) -
Home and Horizon
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Diaspora : The Australasian Experience 2005; (p. 45-58) Ashcroft discusses the conceptual and actual boundaries which contain/construct the notion of 'home'. He suggests that 'home' is deeply connected to a sense of self and 'like that sense of self, "home" brings with it the inescapable tyranny of limits, of borders. Whether home is a place, a location, a feeling, a tradition, an ethnicity, it carries with it the sometimes imperceptible, but ever-present reality of boundaries'. He illustrates this argument with examples from Arnold Zable's Jewels and Ashes (1991) and Ameican writer Toni Morrison's Paradise (1998) as well as a number of critical texts. -
Generations of Journeys
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Speaking to Immigrants : Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration 2002; (p. 149-169) -
The Spoor of Scattered Memories : Journeys, Landscapes and Identities in Australian Transcultural Life Writing
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Ariel , October vol. 40 no. 4 2009; (p. 109-127) -
Trans-Siberian Spirit
1991
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 October 1991; (p. 45)
Awards
- 1992 winner Tilly Aston Award for Braille Book of the Year
- 1992 winner Benalla Award for Audio Book of the Year
- 1991 winner NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Lysbeth Cohen Memorial Prize
- 1991 winner New South Wales State Literary Awards — Ethnic Affairs Commission Award
- 1991 winner FAW ANA Literature Award
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