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Globalised Cartographies Of Being: Literature, Refugees And The Australian Nation, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Globalised Cartographies Of Being: Literature, Refugees And The Australian Nation, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
This chapter considers the figure of the refugee as the displaced individual through the reading of a number of Australian literary works, which explore displacement 'as an extreme case of a more general modern condition - the powerlessness of the individual caught in the grip of vast collective purposes', to borrow Ian Watt's (1959: 218) comments on World War II prisoners of war. Through a critical reading of selected works aimed both at children and adult readers, I consider the role textual representation can play in creating a different understanding of the subject positions of the mass of individuals arriving …
'Integration', Vietnamese Australian Writing, And An Unfinished Boat Story, Michael R. Jacklin
'Integration', Vietnamese Australian Writing, And An Unfinished Boat Story, Michael R. Jacklin
Michael Jacklin
This article contributes to the critical commentary on boat narratives through a reading of an early and little-known example of a Vietnamese Australian boat story: ‘The Whitish-Grey Dove on the Disorientated Boat’, a serialised novella which was published in Integration: The Magazine for Multicultural and Vietnamese Issues from 1994 to 1998. Focusing on this novella and the magazine in which it appeared serves two objectives: the first is to make the argument that Vietnamese Australian writing has a longer and more active history than may be commonly recognized or acknowledged and that ‘the boat’ is a significant figure in this …
Transnational Imaginaries: Reading Asian Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Transnational Imaginaries: Reading Asian Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
When did ‘Asian Australian writing’ come into existence? Answering this question is almost as difficult as deciding when people from the regions now known as Asia first arrived in Australia. We know, for example, that Chinese settlers filed petitions protesting their treatment by colonial governments as early as 1855 (Broinowski 11), and that autobiographical writing appeared in the 1920s (Shen 2001). Creative writers started publishing in the 1950s (Mena Abdullah), 60s (Chitra Fernando) and 70s (Ee Tiang Hong, Brian Castro) – and when we know more about publications in languages other than English, these dates are likely to be pushed …
Analysis Of The Australian Whole Of Government Agreement Principles For Participation In Negotiations For A South Pacific Ocean Regional Fisheries Management Agreement, Quentin Hanich, William Edeson, Ben Tsamenyi
Analysis Of The Australian Whole Of Government Agreement Principles For Participation In Negotiations For A South Pacific Ocean Regional Fisheries Management Agreement, Quentin Hanich, William Edeson, Ben Tsamenyi
Professor Ben M Tsamenyi
No abstract provided.
Public International Law: An Australian Perspective, Ben Tsamenyi, Sam Blay, Ryszard Piotrowicz
Public International Law: An Australian Perspective, Ben Tsamenyi, Sam Blay, Ryszard Piotrowicz
Professor Ben M Tsamenyi
No abstract provided.
The Royal Australian Navy: Meeting The Challenge In Environmental Compliance, Ben Tsamenyi, Barry Snushall
The Royal Australian Navy: Meeting The Challenge In Environmental Compliance, Ben Tsamenyi, Barry Snushall
Professor Ben M Tsamenyi
No abstract provided.
Negotiating The Liminal Divide: Some Italian-Australian Diasporic Poets, Gaetano Rando
Negotiating The Liminal Divide: Some Italian-Australian Diasporic Poets, Gaetano Rando
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This essay offers a survey of some of the leading first-generation Italian-Australian poets, and does not attempt to be definitive. As Adam Aitken points out in his ‘Asian-Australian Diasporic Poets: A Commentary’ (Cordite, 1 August 2012), ‘Diasporic poetics raise more questions than they answer and are just as much about dis-placement as about place, just as much about a ‘poetics of uncertainty’ as about certainties of style/nation/identity.’ Diasporic poetics is, arguably, also very much a poetics of engagement with the liminal divide, a process that is not linear but cyclic, as crossings in liminal space and time join an implicit, …
The Vietnamese Concept Of A Feminine Ideal And The Images Of Australian Women In Olga Masters’ Stories, Thu Hanh Nguyen
The Vietnamese Concept Of A Feminine Ideal And The Images Of Australian Women In Olga Masters’ Stories, Thu Hanh Nguyen
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In this paper I compare Olga Masters’ portrayals of women with the ideals which are currently expected to be followed by Vietnamese women. The paper will investigate to what extend Olga Masters’ work corresponds to the Vietnamese traditional expectation of feminine ideals which are based on four essential attributes: industriousness, appropriate self-presentation, good communication skills, and virtue.
Introduction: Nationalism And Transnationalism In Australian Historical Writing, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, David Lowe
Introduction: Nationalism And Transnationalism In Australian Historical Writing, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, David Lowe
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
One of the strongest trends in Australian historical writing over the last two decades has been a drive to emphasise the nation’s connectedness with the rest of the world. Across a range of historical genres and topics, we have seen a new enthusiasm to explore entanglements between Australian history and that of other places and peoples. The history of travel has been an important contributor to this line of inquiry, but it is at the more intellectual, imaginative and emotional levels that the greatest gains are sometimes claimed for the study of what has become known as ‘transnationalism’. This trend …
Teaching A Mother Tongue Far Away From The Motherland: An Analysis Of Chinese Language Curriculum In Australian High Schools, Min Tao, Wei Wang
Teaching A Mother Tongue Far Away From The Motherland: An Analysis Of Chinese Language Curriculum In Australian High Schools, Min Tao, Wei Wang
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This article is concerned with the situation of teaching of Chinese as a first language or a mother tongue in Australia. Based on the analysis of the curriculum documents, students ' identities and exam papers in Victoria and New South Wales, the two biggest states in Australia, we argue that 1 ) the emergence of Chinese as a first language curriculum in Australia where English is the de facto national language is attributed to the globalisation and commercialisation in education; 2) the curriculum design of Chinese as a first language represents the curriculum' s Euro-centric mind-set and this also results …
Becoming Buddhist: Experiences Of Socialization And Self-Transformation In Two Australian Buddhist Centres, Josip Matesic
Becoming Buddhist: Experiences Of Socialization And Self-Transformation In Two Australian Buddhist Centres, Josip Matesic
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Review of: Glenys Eddy: Becoming Buddhist: Experiences of Socialization and Self-Transformation in Two Australian Buddhist Centres. London, U.K.; New York, U.S.A: Continuum, 2012; pp. xiii + 220.
New Australian Art Song For Low Voice, Lotte Latukefu
New Australian Art Song For Low Voice, Lotte Latukefu
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
World Premieres were given of the following songs:
Bitter Cold; The Ghost Road; Autumn Thoughts- composer- Larry Sitsky At the Triton's Call- composer- May Howlett
Indian Movies, Brand Australia And The Marketing Of Australian Cosmopolitanism, Andrew Hassam
Indian Movies, Brand Australia And The Marketing Of Australian Cosmopolitanism, Andrew Hassam
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Indian movies shot overseas have attracted the attention of not only advertising agencies keen to see their clients' brands appearing on-screen, but also government tourism commissions eyeing India's growing middle classes as potential visitors. Australian federal and state governments offer Indian film producers financial incentives to film in Australia, and Australian cities now regularly supply Indian movies with backdrops of upmarket shopping malls, stylish apartments and exclusive restaurants. Yet in helping to project the lifestyle fantasies of India's new middle classes, Australian government agencies are supporting an Indian view of Australia. While this image may attract Indian tourists to Australia, …