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University of Wollongong

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Series

2008

Australia

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Review Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia And India, Michael Jacklin Jan 2008

Review Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia And India, Michael Jacklin

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The reading of Australian literature from international perspectives is vital, not only for the publication and promotion of Australian literature overseas, but also for the maintenance of a robust and energetic discipline that is both national and global in its reach. India, increasingly, is a contributor to this international network of scholarly engagement, with at least four anthologies of critical essays on Australian literature published in New Delhi in as many years. The present collection of papers, Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia and India, adds to this growing body of work. Several of its essays offer fascinating views on Australian …


The Politics Of Rising Expectations: Middle Class Experiences Of Economic Restructuring In India And Australia, Timothy J. Scrase, John Robinson Jan 2008

The Politics Of Rising Expectations: Middle Class Experiences Of Economic Restructuring In India And Australia, Timothy J. Scrase, John Robinson

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Becoming Postcolonial: Getting Lost With Stephen Muecke's No Road And Retelling Australia, Lisa Slater Jan 2008

Becoming Postcolonial: Getting Lost With Stephen Muecke's No Road And Retelling Australia, Lisa Slater

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Stephen Muecke's No Road (1997) is a travel book that generates profoundly new ways of fuinking about Australia. Muecke proposes that if Australia is to become postcolonial d1an we must change the stories we tell and the way d1at we tell them. To take up the challenge he transforms the archetypal journey into a road that leads nowhere and explores instead an Australia overflowing with stories and potentiality. No Road is a hybrid text that weaves together Muecke's real and imagined travels throughout Australia, travels in which he pursues a dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous histories. It is an experimental …


Minority Women And Forced Migrations: A Comparative Study Of Flight And Settlement Experiences Of Women Refugees In India And Australia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Roberta Julian Jan 2008

Minority Women And Forced Migrations: A Comparative Study Of Flight And Settlement Experiences Of Women Refugees In India And Australia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Roberta Julian

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This paper draws attention to the factors and experiences of displacement and the ways in which women cope with forced migration and resettlement. Through our comparative analysis of the resettlement experiences of women within the developing countries in the South Asian region and women from the Asin region who have settled in Australia, we challenge and problematise the various bureaucratic categories of 'the displaced' (such as political refugee, economic migrant, asylum seeker, illegal immigrant).


Images Of Sicily And Australia In The Narratives Of Venero Armanno And Antonio Casella, Gaetano Rando Jan 2008

Images Of Sicily And Australia In The Narratives Of Venero Armanno And Antonio Casella, Gaetano Rando

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ITALIAN AUSTRALIAN "MIGRATION" LITERATURE HAS DISPLAYED a tendency to present themes and characters closely linked to southem Italy, in particular Sicily and Calabria, a phenomenon in part explained by the massive emigration from these regions between the late I800s and the early 1970s. Sicilian Australians constitute the largest Italian regional group present in the country, with some 50,000 Sicilian born, while, according to community estimates, as many as 200,000 Australian born may have some claim to Sicilian ancestry.


Recent Perceptions Of Rural Australia In Italian And Italian Australian Narrative, Gaetano Rando Jan 2008

Recent Perceptions Of Rural Australia In Italian And Italian Australian Narrative, Gaetano Rando

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The publication in 2008 of the English translation of Emilio Gabbrielli’s novel Polenta e Goanna based on Italian migrants in the West Australian goldfields brings into focus the themes of the bush, the outback and migration that since the mid 1850s (Raffaello Carboni, Rudesindo Salvado) have emerged as a constant thread in texts produced by Italian Australian writers. Italian settlement in rural and outback areas of Australia during the late 1800s and early 1900s has remained a largely unsung saga while most Italians migrating to Australia after 1947 ultimately settled in urban areas. Among the few who have written creatively …