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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 [Review] Boots
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'Asked what poetry could do for Australia, A.D. Hope is anecdotally reported to have replied that it could justify its existence. He likely did not intend it as such, but it is a succinct elucidation of the ineluctable connection between settler poetics and settlement, dynamically theorised by Paul Carter and Phillip Mead, among many others. This connection is evident in each of the formative moments adduced in the development of an Australian literary consciousness; from Marcus Clarke’s 1876 essay on weird melancholy to Henry Lawson’s 1892 Bush Undertaker, and Vance Palmer’s The Legend of the Nineties (1954). The structure of feeling manifested and practised in settler literature operates in an explicit or latent dialectic with Indigenous presence. Nadia Rhook’s book of poems Boots interrogates and revivifies some of the fundamental questions of this dialectic, with a direct lyricism.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Historical Studies vol. 52 no. 3 2021 22528222 2021 periodical issue

    'This special issue of Australian Historical Studies brings together scholars whose work explores the political impact of the sexual and feminist revolutions in Australia. The articles illuminate the connections and divergences between the sexual and feminist revolutions of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. They explore how and why these transnational movements had distinctive and transformative impacts in Australia, both expanding and narrowing ideas about sex, gender and sexuality. The articles also examine instances when questions of gender and sexuality have become sites of political contest, and the ways in which those contests intersected with other traditions and transformations in Australian political history.'  (Editorial introduction)

    2021
    pg. 458-459
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