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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Learning English
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A surreal account of learning English through lessons and television viewing.

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    y separately published work icon West of the West : Writing, Image and Sound from Melbourne's West Scott Brook (editor), N. Cho (editor), Ying Gilbert (editor), Berni M. Janssen (editor), Altona : Common Ground Footscray Community Arts Centre , 2003 Z1112654 2003 anthology poetry short story prose interview Altona : Common Ground Footscray Community Arts Centre , 2003 pg. 50
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    y separately published work icon Yen June/July 2003 Z1531310 2003 periodical issue 2003
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    y separately published work icon Growing up Asian in Australia Alice Pung (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2008 Z1496451 2008 anthology autobiography short story poetry interview extract (taught in 4 units)

    'Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour.

    'Here are well-known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. They tell tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one's feet. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian and Australian.'

    Source: Back cover. 

    Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2008
    pg. 15-16
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    y separately published work icon Look Who's Morphing Tom Cho , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2009 Z1580990 2009 selected work short story (taught in 6 units)

    Look Who's Morphing is a collection of bizarre, funny, often menacing stories in which, along with his extended family, the central character undergoes a series of transformations, shape-shifting through figures drawn from film and television, music clips and video games, porn flicks and comics. He is Godzilla, a Muppet, and Whitney Houston's bodyguard; the Fonz, a robot, a Ford Bronco 4x4 - and, as a climax, a Gulliver-sized cock rock singer, played upon by an adoring troupe of sexy Lilliputians in short skirts and sailor suits and cheerleader outfits. Within these fantasies there is a deep intellectual and emotional engagement, a fundamental questioning of the nature of identity, and the way it constructs itself in a world dominated by the images of popular culture. – From the publisher's website.

    Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2009
    pg. 53-55
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