Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Tony Hughes-d'Aeth on Australia's Literary Regionalism
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'Is it possible to parse Australian writers by states and territories? In today's episode, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth – Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia – speculates about new ways of contemplating Australian writers through the lens of regionalism. As he writes in his upcoming essay 'Thinking in a regional accent: New ways of contemplating Australian writers': 'Yes, we are divided into states and territories, but are these anything other than lines on a map, drawn with a ruler and a set square, and the occasional river? The contrast between the political map of Australia and the now iconic AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia graphically exposes the poverty of the Australian regional imagination and the essential irreality of our territorial demarcations. More particularly, for someone like me, is it right to conceive of Australia in terms of literary regions?'' (Production summary)

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      2020 .
      Extent: 19 mins 26 secsp.
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      • Posted 28 October 2020
      Series: y separately published work icon The ABR Podcast 2020 Southbank : Australian Book Review, Inc. , 2020 26765067 2020 website podcast Number in series: 39
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