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The essay outlines the significance of travel and mobility to Australian culture and history, and gives an overview of various aspects of travel writing by Australians.

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  • An edited and revised version of 'Travel, Writing and Australia'.

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    y separately published work icon Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader Amit Sarwal (editor), Reema Sarwal (editor), New Delhi : SSS Publications , 2009 Z1560703 2009 anthology criticism

    This literary reader on Australian studies for India not only investigates this central question by exploring many other facets of Australian literature especially Australian cross-cultural relationships with India and Asia. Taking a broad view of what Australian literature is, it explores the dimensions of Australian literature (national, Aboriginal, multicultural, ecocritical, postcolonial, modernist, comparative, feminist, and popular) in its varied genres of drama, poetry, autobiography. explorers' journals, short stories, literature of war, travel writing, Anglo-Indian fiction, diasporic writing, mainstream novel, nature writing, children's literature, romance, science fiction, gothic literture, horror, crime fiction, queer writing and humour. Each paper in this Reader presents different ways of "reading down under" and "performing Australianness" (Source: Backcover).

         New Delhi : SSS Publications , 2009     pg. 409-418
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Travel, Writing and Australia. Richard White , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Travel Writing , March vol. 11 no. 1 2007; (p. 1-14) Two broad forces contribute to the shaping of the problematic category, 'Australian travel writing'. First the ambiguities of Australia's 'post-colonial' status can be seen as leading to the development of three distinct traditions of travel writing: Australians writing about the outside world, the outside world writing about Australia, and Australians writing about Australia. But travel writing produced in and about Australia also responds to the pressures of the land itself, where cultures of mobility - 'travelling cultures' - compete with cultures of settlement. (Author abstract)
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