Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 [Review] The Transported Imagination: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Geographical Imaginaries of Colonial Modernity
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'The Transported Imagination, an elegantly presented offering from Victoria Kuttainen, Susann Liebich and Sarah Galletly, explores the intersecting themes of modernity, colonialism, glamour and travel in three ‘culture and leisure’ magazines in interwar Australia. Through their engagement with the varied content of Home (1920–42), The BP Magazine (1928–42) and MAN (1936–72), the authors argue that representations of travel functioned as a means for these magazines to both construct and negotiate what it meant to be modern in interwar Australia, particularly at a time where, they argue, ‘the Pacific was at the fore of the nation's consciousness and imagination’ (18). Organised across three parts – Geography, Cultural Value, and Temporality – the book endeavours to show that it was not just physical travel that was so crucial to interwar ideas of modernity but imagined travel as well. Indeed, the authors engage with the concept of ‘geographical imaginary’ and the ‘outward gaze’ to contend that, as cultural texts, magazines enabled readers to forge a connection to a world beyond Australian shores and understand themselves as on the cutting edge of global fashion, cinematic, literary, and artistic trends – even if they never left their armchairs.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Historical Studies vol. 51 no. 2 2020 19478550 2020 periodical issue

    'Our second issue of 2020 arrives in very strange times and we wish our readers health and well-being in the face of a global pandemic. We extend particular thanks to the indefatigable Annalisa Giudici for helping us to produce this issue in this very challenging environment.' (Lisa Ford and David A. Roberts, Editorial introduction)

    2020
    pg. 233-234
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