Imagining Australia : literature and culture in the new new world /
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London :
Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies :
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- PART ONE: NARRATIVE
- Out of England: literary subjectivity in the Australian colonies, 1788-1867 / Simon During
- Dead white male heroes: Ludwig Leichhardt and Ned Kelly in Australian fiction / Susan Martin
- Escaping the Bush paradigm / Lucy Frost
- David Malouf, history, and an ethics of the body / Andrew Taylor
- Identity, play, imagination: David Malouf, Hossein Valamanesh, and I / Ihab Hassan
- "Inner experience" in Gerald Murnane's The plains / Andrew Zawaki
- PART TWO: CULTURE
- A chance to hear a Nyigina song / Stephen Muecke
- "The first white man born": miscegenation and identity in Kim Scott's Benang / Tony Birch
- Sorry-in-the-sky: empathetic unsettlement, mourning, and the stolen generations / Gail Jones
- The mystery of the missing middlebrow or the c(o)urse of good taste / David Carter
- A short while toward the sun: the golden years of internationalism / Frank Moorhouse
- Australia, America, and the changing face of nature documentary / Graham Huggan
- The man from Hong Kong in Sydney, 1975 / Meaghan Morris
- PART THREE: POETRY
- "Woeful shepherds": anti-pastoral in Australian poetry / Paul Kane
- Two versions of Australian pastoral: Les Murray, William Robinson / Robert Dixon
- Darkness and lostness: how to read a poem by Judith Wright / Kevin Hart
- The presentation and performance of self in the poetry of John Forbes / Brian Henry
- "Split belonging" in Les Murray's novel in verse, Fredy Neptune / Judith Ryan
- The end of the line / Chris Wallace-Crabbe.