Neighbours single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Neighbours
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    y separately published work icon Scission Tim Winton , Fitzroy Ringwood : McPhee Gribble Penguin , 1985 Z433304 1985 selected work short story Tim Winton's first collection of stories deals with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking. These spare, jagged stories, in which people struggle with change and disintegration, are vintage Winton. (Source: LibrariesAustralia) Fitzroy Ringwood : McPhee Gribble Penguin , 1985 pg. 81-85
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    y separately published work icon Australian Short Stories no. 10 1985 Z1066042 1985 periodical issue 1985 pg. 49-52
    Note: With an illustration by Mary Leunig
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories Mary Lord (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 Z307411 1991 anthology short story extract humour satire crime historical fiction (taught in 1 units) Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 pg. 299-302
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    y separately published work icon Neighbours : Multicultural Writing of the 1980s Ronald Frederick Holt (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991 Z194854 1991 anthology short story poetry prose biography humour This collection of Australian multicultural writing is comprised of 26 short stories and two brief prose pieces written or first published in the 1980s (ix). The general theme is immigrant experience and the work is organized loosely in five thematic sections: Rejections; Transitions; Worlds Between; Generations; Connections. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991 pg. 225-228
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    y separately published work icon Writing from Australia Wendy Morgan (editor), Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 Z100967 1994 anthology short story poetry biography prose humour dreaming story Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 pg. 3-7
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    y separately published work icon Daughters of the Sun : Short Stories from Western Australia Bruce Bennett (editor), Susan Miller (editor), Nedlands : UWA Publishing , 1994 Z492457 1994 anthology short story extract humour Nedlands : UWA Publishing , 1994 pg. 139-143
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    y separately published work icon Men Love Sex Alan Close (editor), Milsons Point : Random House , 1995 Z88718 1995 anthology short story prose biography science fiction Milsons Point : Random House , 1995 pg. 297-301
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    y separately published work icon Reflections on Marriage Hazel Hawke (editor), Melbourne : Text Publishing , 1996 Z462457 1996 anthology short story extract Melbourne : Text Publishing , 1996 pg. 102-105
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    y separately published work icon The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English John Thieme (editor), London : Arnold , 1996 Z818232 1996 selected work extract poetry short story London : Arnold , 1996 pg. 279-284
Alternative title: 隣人たち
Language: Japanese
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    y separately published work icon True Blue? : On Being Australian Peter Goldsworthy (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1455140 2008 anthology single work prose extract poetry short story (taught in 3 units)

    'What makes us Australian? Fifty years ago, the laconic bush worker was indisputably the typical Australian, and any Australian schoolchild could have quoted at least the first verse of Banjo Patterson's Man from Snowy River. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, waves of immigration and a highly cosmopolitan urban culture make it more difficult to see what it is that unites us on this dry brown land. This collection of some of the best Australian writing old and new, from across the continent, reminds us of our heritage and shows we have much to be proud of.' (Publisher's blurb)

    Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008
    pg. 41-44
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    y separately published work icon ダイヤモンド・ドッグ : 《多文化を映す》現代オーストラリア短編小說集 Diamond Dog : A Collection of Contemporary Australian Short Stories that Reflect Multiculturalism Kate Darian-Smith (editor), Yasue Arimitsu (editor), Wataru Sato (translator), Masaya Shimokusu (translator), Keiji Minato (translator), Daita Watanabe (translator), Tokyo : 現代企画室 , 2008 Z1559920 2008 anthology short story Tokyo : 現代企画室 , 2008

Works about this Work

Tim Winton and the Ethics of the Neighbour Here and Now Peter D. Mathews , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 55 no. 5 2019; (p. 642-655)

'This article explores the ethical concept of the neighbour, an idea central to the fiction of Tim Winton. The first part focuses on how the ghosts in Cloudstreet symbolize an Australian culture haunted by the injustices of colonization, especially the dispossession of the Indigenous people. The second part looks at the paradox of being commanded to love one’s neighbour, comparing an early story, “Neighbours”, to Winton’s recent novel Eyrie. The third part looks at Winton’s ethics of neighbourliness in light of recent critical reworkings of this concept by Slavoj Žižek and Kenneth Reinhard. Central to this section is the importance of time and place to the ethics of the neighbour, in particular the repeated insistence by both Winton and his critics that, rather than focusing on the past, we should acknowledge the neighbour who stands before us in the here and now.'  (Introduction)

From Tim Winton to ‘Tankman’ : Teaching Australian Literature to Chinese International Students. Jan Bailey , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Teaching Australian Literature : From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings 2011; (p. 177-195)
Jan Baily writes on her experiences of teaching Australian literature to international students. Her teaching experience led her to conclude that ‘Australian texts can enrich the literary experience of our international students’ culturally, aesthetically and linguistically, and can help move them toward a more varied understanding of their unique experience in Australia, and in the world generally’. (p. 193)
Tim Winton Tim Winton , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Revue Svetovej Literatury , vol. 3 no. 2002; (p. 43-45)
Tim Winton Tim Winton , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Revue Svetovej Literatury , vol. 3 no. 2002; (p. 43-45)
From Tim Winton to ‘Tankman’ : Teaching Australian Literature to Chinese International Students. Jan Bailey , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Teaching Australian Literature : From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings 2011; (p. 177-195)
Jan Baily writes on her experiences of teaching Australian literature to international students. Her teaching experience led her to conclude that ‘Australian texts can enrich the literary experience of our international students’ culturally, aesthetically and linguistically, and can help move them toward a more varied understanding of their unique experience in Australia, and in the world generally’. (p. 193)
Tim Winton and the Ethics of the Neighbour Here and Now Peter D. Mathews , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 55 no. 5 2019; (p. 642-655)

'This article explores the ethical concept of the neighbour, an idea central to the fiction of Tim Winton. The first part focuses on how the ghosts in Cloudstreet symbolize an Australian culture haunted by the injustices of colonization, especially the dispossession of the Indigenous people. The second part looks at the paradox of being commanded to love one’s neighbour, comparing an early story, “Neighbours”, to Winton’s recent novel Eyrie. The third part looks at Winton’s ethics of neighbourliness in light of recent critical reworkings of this concept by Slavoj Žižek and Kenneth Reinhard. Central to this section is the importance of time and place to the ethics of the neighbour, in particular the repeated insistence by both Winton and his critics that, rather than focusing on the past, we should acknowledge the neighbour who stands before us in the here and now.'  (Introduction)

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