Meanjin Vol 74
Meanjin Vol 74

Author: Hilary (Ed) Mcphee

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780522868357

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The Winter Meanjin, guest-edited by Hilary McPhee, features a Meanjin Papers essay from political journalist and biographer Chris Wallace, who looks at the sense (or lack thereof) of common sense, and the state of the economy, locally and globally. Antony Loewenstein writes from nascent nation South Sudan, and Drusilla Modjeska reflects on the informed imagination and her own experiences in PNG. There's lots of new fiction from Carrie Tiffany, Paddy O'Reilly, Lloyd Jones and others, and sparkling poetry from Paulina Reeve, Nathan Curnow, Geoff Page and more. This issue also features a comic from the inimitable Katie Parrish and beautiful galleries of artwork by painter Jan Senbergs and Helga Leunig.

Meanjin Vol 74
Meanjin Vol 74

Author: Jonathan Green

Publisher:

Published: 2015-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780522868395

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"The summer 2015 issue of Meanjin has a wonderful essay from author and academic Margaret Simons based on an extraordinary novella-length love letter from Germaine Greer to Martin Amis. Join Greer as she travels the United States in the late seventies, flushed with the success of The Female Eunuch, seeking comfort in the arms of her American lover, seeking out pharmaceuticals with Frank Zappa, poring over Solzhenitsyn and pining for home as she scrawls page after page addressed to Amis. Discover the architect who actually made Jorn Utzon's Sydney opera house work after Utzon fled the project leaving an empty and dysfunctional shell. Wonder what the Turkish secret police have made of Shane Maloney's latest unfinished novel. Read new fiction from John Kinsella, Nike Sulway and Omar Musa and fresh poetry from Erin Shiel, David Wood and more. Much more."

Meanjin
Meanjin

Author: Zora Sanders (Ed.)

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03-16

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780522868333

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In the March 2015 issue of Meanjin Melanie Joosten reflects on the work of artist Ella Dreyfus and asks why we so rarely see depictions of elderly bodies, Paul Daley follows the life of Private Douglas Grant and questions the existing narrative about Indigenous service people, Ben Stubbs travels to Christmas Island to understand the place behind the headlines and we present a Gallery of photographic works from the brilliant James Tylor. The issue is packed with exceptional new fiction, memoir and poetry from the best and brightest of Australian writing.

Meanjin
Meanjin

Author: Gwilym Croucher

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780522868371

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Meanjin is a quarterly literary journal publishing the best new writing from established voices and emerging talents. For over 70 years Meanjin has articulated questions of national importance, questions or art, culture, policy and identity, as well as introducing some of the greatest literary names Australia has ever produced.

Meanjin Vol 74, No 3
Meanjin Vol 74, No 3

Author: Meanjin Quarterly

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 052286838X

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The special issue features essays, interview and memoir from diverse notable Australian voices including Cheryl Saunders, Melissa Lucashenko, Gillian Triggs, Peter Doherty, Doug Hendrie, Cathy McGowan and many more.

Hunters and Collectors
Hunters and Collectors

Author: Tom Griffiths

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-04

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780521483490

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Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Australian historical imagination. Dr Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and investigators of the Australian land and of its indigenous inhabitants contributed a sense of identity at colony-wide and eventually nationwide level. He also considers the rise of professional history, anthropology and archaeology in the universities, which ignored the efforts of the amateurs. Griffiths shows how the seemingly trivial activities of these hunters and collectors feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s. This book is outstanding in its originality, interpretative insight and literary flair.

Resist and Persist
Resist and Persist

Author: Amanda Firestone

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-05-11

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1476676674

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To many, the world appears to be in a state of dangerous change. News and fictional media alike report that these are dark times, and narratives of social resistance imbue many facets of Western culture. The new essays making up this collection examine different events and themes of the 2010s that readily acknowledge the struggling state of things. Crucially, these essays look to the resistance and political activism of communities that seek to make long-reaching and institutional changes in the world through a diverse group of media texts. They scrutinize how a society relates to injustices and how individuals enact a desire for change. The authors analyze a broad range of works such as texts as Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock, Black Panther, The Death of Stalin, Get Out, Jessica Jones, Hamilton, The Shape of Water, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. By digging into these and other works, as well as historic events, the contributors explicate the soul-deep necessity of pushing back against injustice, whether personal or cultural.

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry

Author: Ann Vickery

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-06-13

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1009470213

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An invaluable resource for staff and students in literary studies and Australian studies, this volume is the first major critical survey on Australian poetry. It investigates poetry's central role in engaging with issues of colonialism, nationalism, war and crisis, diaspora, gender and sexuality, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, poetry and activism, print culture, and practices of internationally renowned poets such as Lionel Fogarty, Gwen Harwood, John Kinsella, Les Murray, and Judith Wright. The Companion considers Australian leadership in the diversification of poetry in terms of performance, the verse novel, and digital poetries. It also considers Antipodean engagements with Romanticism and Modernism.

Australia's China
Australia's China

Author: Lachlan Strahan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780521484978

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First published in 1996, Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the PRC in 1972. Going beyond conventional policy studies, it traces the patterns in Australian reactions to China from the grass-roots to official circles, highlighting the centrality of images concerning the exotic, disease, sexuality, the frontier, and China as a paradise/anti-paradise. In responding to China, Australians revealed something of themselves, and this book maps the formation of Australian conceptions of identity in the context of a cross-cultural encounter which was variously cooperative, enriching, baffling, and antagonistic. But there was no single Australian conception of China. Rather, competing perceptions jostled in a shifting dialogue.