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How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: An Anthology of Writing on Aboriginal Art 1980-2006 by Ian W. McLean
Category: Art and Design | Series: Australian Studies in Art and Art Theory Ser.
The first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal Art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art. Featuring contributions by 96 authors from the art world, it argues for a re-evaluation of Aboriginal Art's critical intervention into co ...Show more
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths
Category: Australian History | Series: Studies in Australian History
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 Aust ...Show more
Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones' Fiction
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Gail Jones is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary novelists. Her books have won or been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize, and numerous state literary awards. They are taught in high schools and universities across the country.This colle ...Show more
Locating Australian Literary Memory by Brigid Magner
Category: Australiana | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
'Locating Australian Literary Memory' explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations. It is orientated around eleven authors - Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark ...Show more
Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark's Interwar Fiction by Melinda J. Cooper
Category: Biography | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Eleanor Dark (1901-85) is one of Australia's most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and represents a significant engagement with global modernity from a unique position within settler culture. Yet Dark's contributi ...Show more
Paul Hasluck in Australian History: Civic Personality and Public Life by Tom Stannage, Kay Saunders and Richard Nile (Eds)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: UQP Australian Studies
Paul Hasluck had many lives: poet, journalist, academic, historian, diplomat, politician and governor general of Australia.
SINGULAR VOICE ESSAYS ON AUSTRALIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE by KERR JOAN
Category: Art | Series: Australian Studies in Art and Art Theory Ser.
A collection of essays by the controversial and popular Australian art and architecture scholar, Joan Kerr. The essays encompass colonial architecture, contemporary Aboriginal art, the ancient remains of a dinosaur in an outback museum display, the forgotten and marginalised of Australian art and the im ...Show more
Sexual Abuse of Children: Recognition Redress by Yorick Smaal
Category: Australian History | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society
How can we seek justice and redress for the sexual abuse of children and better prevent the occurrence of such abuse? This work brings together the thoughts on this question advanced by leading scholars, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, from around the world. These thinkers - some also professi ...Show more
Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend - Australian Women's War Fictions by Donna Coates
Category: Military History | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
War is traditionally considered a male experience. By extension, the genre of war literature is a male-dominated field, and the tale of the battlefield remains the privileged (and only canonised) war story. In Australia, although women have written extensively about their wartime experiences, their voic ...Show more
Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous sovereignty matters by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: Australian Cultural Studies
This title gathers together some of Indigenous Australia's best critical thinkers to examine the issues facing their communities today. It covers dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted social studies media and organisations.The rights of Australia's indigenous people are at a crossroads. Over ...Show more
The Captive Republic - A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788-1996 by Mark McKenna
Category: History | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
This first comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia traces debate around an Australian republic from 1788 to the present. It explains the pivotal role played by republican philosophies, both before and after federation, and illustrates the striking similarities between the a ...Show more
The Life of Such Is Life - A Cultural History of an Australian Classic by Roger Osborne
Category: Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy's Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?From Furphy's handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controv ...Show more