Suchergebnisse

Dredging up family secrets : Kate Grenville's The secret river and Richard Flanagan's Death of a river guide -- Confronting the "double fold of silence" : Kim Scott and Hazel Brown's Kayang & me and Sally Morgan's My place -- Belonging across generations : Brian Castro's Birds of passage and Shanghai nights, and Alex Miller's The ancestor game -- Returning to homelands : Christos Tsiolkas' Dead Europe and Christopher Koch's The many-coloured land : a return to Ireland -- Listening to the ghosts of the past : Andrew McGahan's The white earth -- Conclusion

This thesis examines the space and time of imagined sound in Australian post-World War Two literature and music. Using what I term a critical close listening methodology, I will discuss a range of novels, poems, songs, song suites, film clips and art music compositions that, through a return to various times in the past, offer a remapping of Australian space. Literary and musical representations of the post-European settlement era – narratives as diverse as the desert explorer imagined by both Francis Webb in his poetic sequence 'Eyre All Alone' (1961) and David Lumsdaine in his electro-acoustic composition Aria for Edward John Eyre (1972), the convict and outsiders songs of The Drones and Gareth Liddiard (2006 and 2010), the soundings of mythic island foundations in Baecastuff's Mutiny Music (2006 - present) and the destruction and rebirth of the continental top-end in Alexis Wright's novel Carpentaria (2006) – resonate within key moments of the post-war era, such as the search for the centre, the shift towards recognition of Indigenous custodianship in the post-Mabo period, and the move beyond the boundaries of the nation. Drawing together literary and musical works in seven chapters, I consider representations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous experiences of a range of Australian geoimaginaries – the continent, the archipelago, and the island. I argue that the close listening method, with its focus on sound, generates a unique cartography of the artistic, historical, and political harmonics of the works assembled, while also creating a productive dialogue between the distinct mediums of the works. These statements of postcolonial spatiotemporal difference deepen our understanding of the complexity of fundamental national spaces and times, mapping the development of pivotal geoimaginaries that accompanied the historical terrain of the post-war period.

Social Policy and Its Administration contains an index of literature that defines the output created by social scientists for the welfare of human beings. This literary survey originates out of the need to present a comprehensive bibliographic work. The book covers areas that encompass the concept social policy. Topics such as the standards in social welfare services are also the focus of the book. The book traces the beginning of social science and the major proponents of the subject. The improvements made on the field are also enumerated and the countries that contributed to the progress of.

This paper analyses the attitudes to migrants evident in much of the Australian literature dealing with industrial back injuries. Both medical and lay writers believe that migrants, especially those from Southern Europe, are over‐represented among patients complaining of occupationally induced back pain. It is also widely believed that migrants are more prone than Australian born workers to malingering and psychosomatic complications of back injury. However no firm statistical evidence for this viewpoint was discovered. Three small studies which tend to refute it are discussed.

Demonstrating that it is possible for writing to articulate ethical concerns and enlighten the broader community, this powerful collection of essays explores the relationship between writing and justice. Including thought-provoking contributions from Australian poets, essayists, playwrights, critics, and novelists-including Gail Jones, Eva Sallis, and Frank Brennan-it asks if writing can inform a collective national consciousness and challenge citizens to take action