Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Google Earth and Google Babies : Nation, Transnation and the Australian Reproscape
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'If the transnational is often mapped at a macro scale, it also occurs at many micro levels, some of which centre on the human body. This chapter surveys a range of print and visual media to see how the movements of genetic material are represented as they occur within and across national spaces, and how transnational surrogacy contracts, third-party provision of gametes and adoption reconfigure the family. Key genres dealing with the ‘reproscape’ are outlined: documentaries, memoirs, fiction, digital media, television dramas and film. The focus is on Australia and two central examples involve Australian-Indian exchanges: a memoir of commissioning surrogacy by Barry du Bois and the memoir of adoption by Saroo Brierly, which was made internationally famous as the film Lion.'

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    y separately published work icon Transnational Spaces : India and Australia Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay (editor), Paul Sharrad (editor), London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2021 27690313 2021 anthology criticism

    'A multi-disciplinary set of studies (Humanities and Social Sciences) of transnational flows and influences and themes connecting India and Australia, from mining and Aboriginal politics to colonial botanical collections to the spread of the ghazal form in poetry. It results from collaborations between Indian and Australian scholars and includes a theoretical overview of the transnational in the editors' introductory chapter.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2021
    pg. 105-132
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Subjects:
  • A Long Way Home Saroo Brierley , Larry Buttrose , 2013 single work autobiography
  • Lion Saroo Brierley , Luke Davies , 2016 single work film/TV
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