Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 The Satirical Press of Colonial Australia : A Migrant and Minority Enterprise
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'This chapter re-assesses the colonial Australian versions of the London Punch, making a case for their importance as essentially migrant and minority publications. Founded as a means of maintaining a sense of Britishness, and as a direct link to the culture of Metropolitan London, these magazines were staffed overwhelmingly by migrants (from Britain and elsewhere), directed to a predominantly migrant readership, and filled their pages with migration-themed jokes, cartoons, and pieces of doggerel. The everyday worries of a stranger in a strange land could be soothed by reference to the humour of the local satirical magazine, and a sense of shared community built through regular recourse to the pages of Melbourne Punch, Sydney Punch, Tasmanian Punch, Ballarat Punch, Adelaide Punch, Queensland Punch, or even Ipswich Punch.'

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    y separately published work icon The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press Catherine Dewhirst (editor), Richard Scully (editor), Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 25971689 2020 anthology criticism

    Focuses on the rare, radical and foreign-language print culture of multiple and frequently concurrent minority groups’ newspaper ventures.

    Demonstrates how the local experiences and narratives of such communities are always forged and negotiated within a context of globalising forces.

    Explores the diverse worlds of Australia’s migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day

    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020
    pg. 19-36
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