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Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s
Australia is rarely considered to have been a part of the great political changes that swept the world in the 1960s: the struggles of the American civil rights movement, student revolts in Europe, guerrilla struggles across the Third World and demands for women’s and gay liberation. This book tells the story of how Australian activists from a diversity of movements read about, borrowed from, physically encountered and critiqued overseas manifestations of these rebellions, as well as locating the impact of radical visitors to the nation. It situates Australian protest and reform movements within a properly global – and particularly Asian – context, where Australian protestors sought ans...
A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900
A fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.
Surveying Success
Walter and Katie Hume coped with isolation from family and the deaths of five infants while working to establish their financial future, secured promotions for Walter and created a place for themselves among the colonial elite. They attained the ideal middle-class family life with Walter's career success providing sufficient income to educate their children overseas, reside in elite homes and angage in genteel and philanthropic pastimes.
Carmen Abroad
A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945. This volume explores how Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts.
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Katharine Susannah Prichard
Bridging Prichard's non-fictional and fictional writing, the author provides unique insights into the writer's major concerns over several decades. The material is arranged in sections, including Aboriginal Life, Landscape, Women's Lives, Socialism and Communism, and Literature and Criticism.
The Wedderburn Book
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Wedderburn Book
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