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Building on Gendered Ground: Space and National Identity in Brenda Walker’s The Wing of Night
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Australian Writers and Writing , May no. 1 2010; (p. 4-13)'On Anzac Day 2005 John Howard proclaimed that Anzac soldiers had 'bequeathed Australia a lasting sense of national identity'. Howard's speeches and other efforts to revitalise Anzac Day have generated questions about his vision of the Australian nation...
Brenda Walker's award winning fourth novel The Wing of Night entered this debate about the control and uses of the Anzac image in 2005, the year that marked the 90th anniversary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli. By honouring and remembering a variety of men and women that Howard's version of the Anzac legend ignores, Walker challenges a limited, gendered image of the nation.' (p. 1)
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Building on Gendered Ground: Space and National Identity in Brenda Walker’s The Wing of Night
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Australian Writers and Writing , May no. 1 2010; (p. 4-13)'On Anzac Day 2005 John Howard proclaimed that Anzac soldiers had 'bequeathed Australia a lasting sense of national identity'. Howard's speeches and other efforts to revitalise Anzac Day have generated questions about his vision of the Australian nation...
Brenda Walker's award winning fourth novel The Wing of Night entered this debate about the control and uses of the Anzac image in 2005, the year that marked the 90th anniversary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli. By honouring and remembering a variety of men and women that Howard's version of the Anzac legend ignores, Walker challenges a limited, gendered image of the nation.' (p. 1)
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- Kangaroo 1923 single work novel
- My Brother Jack : A Novel 1964 single work novel
- The Lucky Country 1964 single work non-fiction
- On Our Selection 1912 single work drama
- ANZAC (Australian & New Zealand Army Corps)
- Australian literary history
- Australian identity
- Australian literature and writers
- Defining an Australian literature
- Australian drama
- Australian novels & novelists
- Australian poetry
- Australian culture
- Australian films
- Social change
- Australian literary magazines
- Culture & cultural life
- Country vs city
- Stereotypes
- Colonialism & imperialism
- Theatre companies
- 1910s
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