Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Australian Youth Literature and the Formation of Contemporary Australian Cultural Identity
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Quite like the American literature in the 1830s, the Australian literature almost a century afterwards displayed an urges to carve out its own identity. Like Emerson and Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville, Whitman and Mark Twain, the Australian writers of the early phase focused on where they saw marks of distinction, defining the new nation as a nation of their won, their own land.

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    y separately published work icon IJAS vol. 1 no. 1 2008 Z1605003 2008 periodical issue 2008 pg. 21-31
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