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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... no. 44 October 2005 of New Literatures Review est. 1975 New Literatures Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Australia's Cultural Identity Now, Janette Turner Hospital , single work essay
Among her reflections on Australian cultural identity, Janette Turner Hospital gives examples of two writers from non-Anglo-Celtic backgrounds and the difficulties they have faced in being accepted as 'Australian writers'.
 (p. 5-13)
Guides and Explorers : Australia's Cultural Identity Now, Kim Scott , single work essay
In his essay, Scott writes: 'The Australian continent was originally multicultural. Many peoples, many nations. Considering that helps you think differently about race and even about frontier conflict. If frontier conflict can also be seen as having something of the nature of international conflict, then it helps to understand ancestors, like my own, who not only were guides, but may have worked as trackers and troopers, and who at certain stages made alliances with the invader, siding with white people against black people' (20).
 (p. 15-22)
Australia's Cultural Identity Now, Robert Drewe , single work essay
Robert Drewe discusses Australian identity in terms of 'the Myth of Landscape' and 'the Myth of Character', using examples from his fiction to illustrate.
 (p. 23-31)
Untitled, Elizabeth Mead , single work review
— Review of Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey 2005 anthology criticism ; (p. 77-79)
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