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Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 The Awakening
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Captain Mitchell has in The Awakening depicted, with vision and knowledge what, in all probablility, would happen if a great power, driven by national and economic need, made an attempt to seize this rich, almost empty, island continent - the most tempting 'promised land' the world contains (appears on dustjacket).

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Invasion and the Politics of Belonging in Pat Grant's Blue Felicity Castagna , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 3 no. 1 2014;
In this essay, Felicity Castagna notes 'the long history of invasion narratives in Australian literature, and how they served to reify the governmental belonging of White Australians inciting nationalism and encouraging vigilance in relation to migration and national security.' (From introduction)
Typical Evil? The Japanese Represented in Australian War Writings Megumi Kato , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Beyond Good And Evil? Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region 2005; (p. 65-78)
The Scared Who Want to Scare : Fear of a Japanese Invasion in Australian Literature Megumi Kato , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Complicities : Connections and Divisions : Perspectives on Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region 2003; (p. 43-51)
Invasion Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 124-125)

— Review of The Celestial Hand : A Sensational Story Joyce Vincent , 1903 single work novel ; The Awakening G. D. Mitchell , 1937 single work novel ; The Australian Crisis C. H. Kirmess , 1908 single work novel ; The Coloured Conquest Rata , 1904 single work novel
The Novel : Novels of Purpose H. M. Green , 1961 single work criticism
— Appears in: A History of Australian Literature, Pure and Applied : A Critical Review of All Forms of Literature Produced in Australia from the First Books Published After the Arrival of the First Fleet Until 1950, with Short Accounts of Later Publications Up to 1960 1961; (p. 1122-1152)
New Australian Books Frederick T. Macartney , 1937 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 12 October vol. 9 no. 10 1937; (p. 151)

— Review of Legend For Sanderson Vance Palmer , 1937 single work novel ; A Murder in Sydney : A Novel Leonard Mann , 1937 single work novel ; Return to Coolami Eleanor Dark , 1936 single work novel ; Decline and Fall of a British Matron : A Caustic Comedy Mary Mitchell , 1937 single work novel ; The Awakening G. D. Mitchell , 1937 single work novel
Invasion Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 124-125)

— Review of The Celestial Hand : A Sensational Story Joyce Vincent , 1903 single work novel ; The Awakening G. D. Mitchell , 1937 single work novel ; The Australian Crisis C. H. Kirmess , 1908 single work novel ; The Coloured Conquest Rata , 1904 single work novel
The Scared Who Want to Scare : Fear of a Japanese Invasion in Australian Literature Megumi Kato , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Complicities : Connections and Divisions : Perspectives on Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region 2003; (p. 43-51)
The Novel : Novels of Purpose H. M. Green , 1961 single work criticism
— Appears in: A History of Australian Literature, Pure and Applied : A Critical Review of All Forms of Literature Produced in Australia from the First Books Published After the Arrival of the First Fleet Until 1950, with Short Accounts of Later Publications Up to 1960 1961; (p. 1122-1152)
Typical Evil? The Japanese Represented in Australian War Writings Megumi Kato , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Beyond Good And Evil? Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region 2005; (p. 65-78)
Invasion and the Politics of Belonging in Pat Grant's Blue Felicity Castagna , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 3 no. 1 2014;
In this essay, Felicity Castagna notes 'the long history of invasion narratives in Australian literature, and how they served to reify the governmental belonging of White Australians inciting nationalism and encouraging vigilance in relation to migration and national security.' (From introduction)
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