Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Literary Ambitions : The Polish-Language Press in Australia
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'This chapter highlights the abundance of cultural and literary forms and themes featured in Polish-language periodicals published in Australia. With over 150 individual titles published before the 1990s and contributions from a relatively high number of sophisticated writers, the Polish-language press is a unique Australian LOTE (Languages Other Than English) phenomenon. The chapter argues that this profusion of literary work indicates that these periodicals served predominantly as a means of self-expression, reinforcing the cultural identities and sense of belonging of a dislocated diasporic intelligentsia, and that this function might have been more important to some editors than dealing with issues of interest to the broader migrant community. These periodicals shed light on hidden histories of migration to Australia, and hence refine perspectives on Australia’s migrant communities, past and present.'

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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. 127-149
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