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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 From a Distance : Australian Writers and Cultural Displacement
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Geelong, Geelong City - Geelong East area, Geelong area, Geelong - Terang - Lake Bolac area, Victoria,:Deakin University Press , 1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Writing Home : Nineteenth-Century British Migrant Journals and Letters, Andrew Hassam , single work criticism (p. 1-10)
Henry Lawson : Or the Tyranny of Proximity, Xavier Pons , single work criticism biography (p. 11-19)
Australia After All? : Mary Gilmore's Relocation of the Visionary Just Community, Jennifer Strauss , single work criticism biography (p. 21-31)
Succeeding by Letter : Henry Handel Richardson and `This Australia Business', Clive Probyn , single work criticism biography

Explores HHR's inclination to use (often male) pseudonyms as a way to hide her true cultural and sexual identity, to create a space between her private person and the public literary property or 'author', and the implications of this scheme which sometimes led to bizarre episodes of readerly mystification.

 (p. 33-47)
Christina Stead's `Other' Country, Hazel Rowley , single work criticism biography (p. 49-59)
Patrick White : Our Last Colonial Novelist?, Helen Thomson , single work criticism biography (p. 61-71)
Cultural Identity and the Narration of Space : A Reading of David Malouf Rewriting an Explorer Mythology : The Narration of Space in David Malouf's Work, Amanda Nettelbeck , single work criticism biography (p. 73-82)
Commitment and Constraint : Contemporary Koori Writing, Joan Newman , single work criticism (p. 83-91)
Taking Your Story to Town : Evelyn Crawford's `Over My Tracks' and the Ambivalence of Aboriginal Women's Autobiographical Narratives, Anne Brewster , single work criticism (p. 93-102)
Australia/Post : Australian Studies, Literature and Post-Colonialism, David Carter , single work criticism (p. 103-116)
Covering Australia : Foreign Correspondents in Asia, Robin Gerster , single work criticism (p. 117-126)
Power Play : The Sirkus in Peter Carey's 'The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith', Anthony J. Hassall , single work criticism (p. 141-147)
Multiculturalism, Identity, Displacement : The Lives of Brian (Castro), Wenche Ommundsen , single work criticism biography (p. 149-158)
Performing Australian Ethnicity : `Helen Demidenko', Sneja Gunew , single work criticism (p. 159-171)
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