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A Novel Approach To History: Arnold Bennett, Marie Corelli And The Interior Lives Of Single Middle-Class Women, England, 1880-1914, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

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There are many ‘gaps’ or ‘silences’1 in women’s history – especially in relation to their interior lives. Historians seeking to penetrate the thoughts and emotions of ‘ordinary’ single middle-class women living during the Late Victorian and Edwardian years have a challenging task. These women rarely left personal documents for historians to analyse. Novels, particularly popular or bestselling novels, represent one pathway into this realm. Popular novels are numbered among the few written sources that are available to help historians to fill in some of the absences in the conventional historical record. I have chosen a selection of the novels of …

Orwell Y La Revolución Social: Instrucciones En Clave De Fábula Para Domar Al Pequeño Totalitario Que Todos Llevamos Dentro, Luis Gomez Romero

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I. Nota introductoria: Manifiesto urgente para liberar a Eric Arthur Blair de la prisión a que le han reducido los simplistas

Eric Arthur Blair —niño dotado de un nombre británico como pocos— nació el 25 de junio de 1903 en Montihori, Bengala; hijo de Richard Walmesley Blair, funcionario inglés del Departamento del Opio en el Servicio Civil de la India, y de Ida Blair, de origen francés. Probablemente, algún hipotético lector se estará preguntando por qué tendríamos que guardar memoria de un natalicio que sucedió, al tiempo que escribo estas líneas, casi cien años atrás. Para responder a esta cuestión …

Language Diversity In Europe: Can The Eu Prevent The Genocide Of The French Linguistic Minorities?, Henri A. Jeanjean

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All references about France, be they about French language, French culture, French arrogance or French cuisine seem to indicate that this country is homogeneous, mono-lingua and mono-cultural. If we consider some of its regions we can note a huge linguistic and cultural diversity: Corsica is Italo-Roman, Brittany is Celtic, Flemish is spoken in the North of France, Alsace is Germanic, the language in the Basque region is pre Indo-European while Catalan and Occitan both form part of the "occitano-roman group, half way between Gallo-Roman and Ibero-Roman." According to the new Atlas of Endangered World Naguages published by UNESCO, all …

Of A 'Contested Ground' And An 'Indelible Stain': A Difficult Reconciliation Between Australia And Its Aboriginal History During The 1990s And 2000s, Lorenzo Veracini

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This article proposes an interpretative narrative of the evolution of Aboriginal history as a scholarly enterprise during the 1990s and in more recent years. The 1990s were characterised by attempts to synthesise the interpretative traditions resulting from previous decades of scholarly activity. In more recent years, the debate has shifted dramatically, dealing specifically with the genocidal nature of white Australia's policy towards Aboriginal peoples. The most important passages in this process are associated with the 1992 Mabo decision by the Australian High Court and the publication of the Bringing them home report of 1997.

Displaced Mothers Respond: Intergenerational Responsibilities In And Around The Texts Of F.A. And Lily Brett, Gay Breyley

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Migration to Australia creates a site of encounter. On this site, 'migrants' and 'Australia' respond to and become each other, as they negotiate forms and levels of responsibility for their newly shared site. Citizens and non-citizens who have been displaced from distant sites of violence and persecution respond continually to intersections of current events and previous displacements, of children's questions and revived memories. Such intersections recur in moments of eating, sleeping, working, driving, talking and media consumption, among others, as the meetings of past and present, self and other, 'here' and 'there' suffuse daily interactions. Interactions range from those with …

La Narrativa Italoaustraliana Tra Prima E Seconda Generazione, Gaetano Rando

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Genocide And Colonialism, Ii: Discussing A Recent International Conference On 'Genocide And Colonialism' And Its Implications For Australian Debates, Lorenzo Veracini

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Lorenzo Veracini reviews a recent international conference on 'Genocide and Colonialism' and its implications for Australian debates.

Promoting The Ideals Of Integration And Diversity. Media Coverage Of Special Olympics Australia, Stephen J. Tanner, Sandy Haswell, Mandy Lake

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Australia's media organisations have long had an obsession with the exploits of our sporting 'champions', both on and off the field. This coverage is often said to be a response to the demands of a sports-mad nation. In a society in which sport is often considered a symbol of unity and integration, this paper investigates whether the media (1) contributes to the spirit of diversity by covering sport involving people with intellectual disabilities, and (2) encourages greater awareness of disability issues by writing with authority and understanding, or instead promotes elitism by focusing on so-called 'real sports' that feature able-bodied …

From The Golden Courtesan, Shady Cosgrove

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This is an excerpt from the sixth chapter of Shady Cosgrove's The Golden Courtesan. Set in the 1830s, the novel responds to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre in a Rhysian tradition by exploring the life of Edward Rochester's mistress, Celine Varens. Celine was an opera dancer/courtesan and mother to Adele Varens (the child who inspired Jane's arrival at Thornfield). In this excerpt, Celine and Rochester have been engaged in a turbulent affair and Demi, a rival dancer, has just told Celine of Rochester's wife, Bertha/Antoinette. Celine is also pregnant with Rochester's child.

"Kissing The Noose Of Australian Democracy": Misplaced Faiths And Displaced Lives Converse Over Australia's Rising Fences, Gay Breyley

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"A Mirror For Men?" Idealised Depictions Of White Men And Gay Men In Japanese Women's Media, Mark Mclelland

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This paper argues that Japanese women's media which portray images of foreign (nearly always white) men and Japanese gay men as objects of desire and fascination for Japanese women function as rhetorical mirrors whose real intent is to reflect back the supposed deficiencies of 'traditional' Japanese men. The paper concludes that women's media are being used as a vehicle for anti-male rhetoric, a channel for an indirect discourse of complaint whose main purpose is to critique the perceived shortcomings of ordinary Japanese men.

Towards A Legal Framework For A Single National Ballast Water Management Scheme In Australia, Ben M. Tsamenyi, Stuart B. Kaye, Alison Castle

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Introduced Marine Pests (IMPs) pose a serious threat to marine biodiversity in Australia. There are many ways pests are introduced into the marine environment. The major vectors for IMPs are ballast water, ship fouling, accidental introductions due to mariculture and deliberate introduction. The focus of this paper is on the administrative and legislative response to the introduction of IMPs through ballast water. Historically, ballast water accounts for only 15-20 per cent of the invasive marine species found in Australia. Ballast water is, however, becoming the major threatening vector in the last two decades. The current ballast water legislative and administrative …

'Friend To One, Enemy To Many?': The Time Of Foreign Policy Struggle In Papua New Guinea Under The Bill Skate Government, Kazuhiro Monden

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Since independence in 1975 Papua New Guinea (PNG) has adopted as its fundamental foreign policy position the principle that the country is 'friends to all and enemies to none.' When PNG foreign policy shifts from this principle the realist foundations of the Country's international relationships are challenged. Under the administration of Bill Skate from 1997-1999 such a shift came close to being realized as Papua New Guinean political players used foreign policy and diplomatic interests to justify or extend their domestic political and electoral interests.

This paper focuses on diplomatic events in PNG at the end of Bill Skate's Government, …