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'On Anzac Day 2005 John Howard proclaimed that Anzac soldiers had 'bequeathed Australia a lasting sense of national identity'. Howard's speeches and other efforts to revitalise Anzac Day have generated questions about his vision of the Australian nation...
Brenda Walker's award winning fourth novel The Wing of Night entered this debate about the control and uses of the Anzac image in 2005, the year that marked the 90th anniversary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli. By honouring and remembering a variety of men and women that Howard's version of the Anzac legend ignores, Walker challenges a limited, gendered image of the nation.' (p. 1)Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Building on Gendered Ground: Space and National Identity in Brenda Walker’s The Wing of Night
The Journal of Australian Writers and Writing
The Journal of Australian Writers and Writing
Subjects:
- The Wing of Night 2005 single work novel
- National Fictions : Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative 1986 single work criticism
- Damned Whores and God's Police : The Colonization of Women in Australia 1975 single work non-fiction
- Women and the Bush : Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition 1988 multi chapter work criticism
- Writing Woman, Writing Place : Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction 2004 single work criticism
- Perceptions of Australia, 1915-1965 1988 single work criticism
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