Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Crónicas in Australia’s Spanish-Language Press : The Case of El Expreso
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'Described as “the platypus of prose”, crónicas are a genre that combines journalistic reporting, social commentary, humour and fiction. In his chapter, Jacklin surveys the scholarship focusing on this phenomenon of the Latin American press and then turns to examine crónicas in the Australian newspaper El Expreso, published for only a few months in 1979. Though short-lived, El Expreso offered an alternative to Australia’s existing Spanish-language press. Its inclusion of Luis Abarca’s Crónicas de un Blady Woggie, along with cronicas by Uruguayan-born Alberto Domínguez, and those by UK-born academic John Brotherton marked the newspaper as radical. A focus on these crónicas provides opportunity to investigate the role of this unique genre in the migrant press, and its contribution to the negotiation of Spanish-language Australian identities.'

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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. 169-187
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