The Pursuit of Happiness single work   short story   young adult  
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 The Pursuit of Happiness
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Based on the idea of happiness as a fundamental, constitutional right, and the effect this pursuit might have on others.

Notes

  • The development of 'Pursuit of Happiness' was greatly influenced and aided by an Asialink residency in the Philippines in 2002, a project supported by the Australia Council and the New South Wales Ministry of the Arts. (Hunger & Other Stories)

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has Asian characters.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Hunger and Other Stories Michael Hyde (editor), Val Kent (editor), Norwood : Australian Association for the Teaching of English , 2003 Z1052461 2003 anthology short story young adult Norwood : Australian Association for the Teaching of English , 2003 pg. 92-107
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Red Pearl and Other Stories Beth Yahp , Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2017 11681093 2017 selected work short story

    'The Red Pearl and Other Stories is an invitation from an idiosyncratic but endearing bunch of misfits and outsiders to travel to emotional sites just beyond our GPS coordinates. Welcome to Kuala Lumpur, Paris, Namche Bazaar - but also to unnamed, weirdly recognizable spaces of desire, anxiety or nightmare. Here, race riots unfold in 1960s Malaysia; an 'Asian' student faces 'Go home' graffiti on incessant train rides around Sydney; dogs in love twirl and tumble in the high mountains of Nepal. Here, too, is the parallel Gothic world of the Shanghai Bar, where an Orientalist seductress bites back; and the concrete world of expatriate Kuala Lumpur where Dragon Princes and spirit travellers can also be found. Here is a vision of Sydney at its mythical best: golden, shaded in jacaranda blossoms and offering benevolent asylum to an array of newcomers and old hands. Moving between genres and cultures, the stories in this collection capture moments of intensity and yearning, points of turbulence or rest in the lives of characters who inhabit a globalised world. Their quest is for new arrangements of family, home, friendship and workplaces; new ways of living and loving in a rapidly changing world. The Red Pearl and Other Stories is award-winning novelist Beth Yahp's first collection of short stories.' (Publication summary)

         Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2017     pg. 55-74
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