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South Asia,South and East Asia,Asia,:Indian Council for Cultural Relations,1971 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
'The Main basis for discussion of Modern Australian literature was provided by Professor James McAuley in his introductory commentary.' Includes comments from Leonie Kramer, Rodney Hall, Judith Wright and other seminar participants.
Reports a brief interchange between McAuley and Chandra making particular note of McAuley's statement that "There is no political support for Socialism in Australia whatsoever" (227).
The discussion of Australian literature in this report centres around Russell's paper that presented "the problems of Australian English more from a linguistic angle though he avoided technicalities".