The literature of Australia : an anthology
2009
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Publisher's description: The result of an unprecedented collaboration between Sydney's Macquarie University and International PEN Sydney Centre, and funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Research Council, The Literature of Australia offers readers of all kinds a window into the myriad ways of being Australian. It covers two hundred years of literature in all genres, from the 1700s to the present. With over 500 entries from 307 different authors, it includes writing by Aboriginal authors from the early colonial period to the present, through to work from contemporary authors of international renown, including Shirley Hazzard, Peter Carey, David Malouf, Les Murray, Alexis Wright, and and Kate Grenville.
Main title:
The literature of Australia : an anthology / general editor, Nicholas Jose ; foreword by Thomas Keneally.
Author:
Jose, Nicholas, 1952-, editor
Edition:
1st American edition.
Imprint:
New York London : W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.©2009
Collation:
xxxviii, 1464 pages ; 25 cm.
Notes:
First published in Australia by Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd 2009 under the title: Macquarie PEN anthology of Australian literature.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Thomas Keneally -- About the editors -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- General introduction / Nicholas Jose -- Aboriginal literature / Anita Heiss and Peter Minter -- Literature to 1900 / Elizabeth Webby -- Literature 1900-1950 / Nicole Moore -- Fiction and drama from 1950 / Kerryn Goldsworthy -- Poetry and non-fiction from 1950 / David McCooey -- from: Journal of a first fleet surgeon / George Worgan (1757-1838) -- from: Complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson / Watkin Tench (1758-1833) -- Letter to Mr Philips, Lord Sydney's steward / Bennelong (c1764-1813) -- Letter to Brigid Kingdon / Elizabeth Macarthur (1766-1850) -- from: Voyage to Terra Australis / Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) -- Kangaroo / Barron Field (1786-1846) -- Native's lament / Anonymous -- from: Hermit in Van Diemen's land / Henry Savery (1791-1842) -- Swan river eclogue / Anonymous -- Jim Jones at Botany Bay / Anonymous -- from: Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia / Charles Sturt (1795-1969) -- Aboriginal mother (from Myall's Creek) / Eliza Dunlop (1796-1880) -- Convict's tour to hell / Frank the poet (c 1810-c 1861) -- Moreton Bay / Anonymous -- Letter to her father / Eliza Brown (1810-1896) -- from: Notes and sketches of New South Wales / Louisa Anne Meredith (1812-1895) -- Beautiful squatter -- Mid-summer noon in the Australian Forest -- Confession -- Consummation / Charles Harpur (1813-1868) -- Letter to colonial secretary, Van Diemen's land / Mary Ann Arthur (c 1819-1871) -- Letter to colonial secretary, Van Diemen's land / Walter George Arthur (c 1820-1861) -- from: Lady's visit to the gold diggings of Australia in 1852-1853 / Ellen Clacy (c 1820-?) -- Song of Australia / Caroline Carleton (c 1820-1874) -- Aboriginal or Flinders Island chronicle -- Flinders Island weekly chronicle -- Weekly Chronicle / Thomas Brune (c 1823-1841) -- Letter to the editor by the Coranderrk Aborigines / William Barak (c 1824-1903) -- from: Clara Morison / Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) -- from: Robbery under arms / Rolf Boldrewood (1826-1915) -- Speech on Mr Wentworth's Constitutional Bill / DH Deniehy (1828-1865) -- Eumerella shore / Anonymous -- Wild colonial boy / Anonymous -- Sick stockrider / Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) -- Spider and the fly / Waif Wander (c 1833-c 1910) -- Cabbage-tree hollow, and the valley of the grose / Louisa Atkinson (1834-1872) -- Stringy bark and green hide / George Chanson (1835-1898) -- from: Australia twice traversed / Ernest Giles (1835-1897) -- Bell-birds -- Late Mr A L Gordon: in memoriam / Henry Kendall (1839-1882) -- from: Dominion of Australia / WHL Ranken (1839-1902) -- Shepherd / AJ Boyd (1842-1928) -- from: Such is life / Joseph Furphy (1843-1912) -- Seeking -- Answer -- Wind of destiny / Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) -- from: His natural life -- Nasturtium villas -- Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Sea spray and smoke drift / Marcus Clarke (1846-1881) -- Where the pelican builds / Mary Hannay Foott (1846-1918) -- That nonsensical idea / Louisa Lawson (1848-1920) -- Monsieur Caloche / Tasma (1848-1897) -- Letter to the editor / Bessie Cameron (c 1851-1895) -- from: Confessions of a beachcomber / EJ Banfield (1852-1923) -- from: My life and work / Taam Sze Pui (c 1853-1926) -- Letter to her mother / Audrey Tennyson (1854-1916) -- Jerilderie letter / Ned Kelly (1855-1880) -- How Muster-Master Stoneman earned his breakfast / Price Warung (1855-1911) -- Chosen vessel / Barbara Baynton (1857-1929) -- Correggio Jones / Victor Daley (c 1858-1905) -- Letter to Edith Brangy / Kitty Brangy (c 1859-1918) -- Letter to solicitor, for Captain Page, secretary of the Victorian board for the protection of Aborigines / Annie Rich (c 1859-1937) -- Petition to the king / William Cooper (c 1861-1941) -- Man from Snowy river -- Waltzing Matilda -- Mulga Bill's bicycle / Banjo Paterson (1864-1941) -- Poet's mother / AG Stephens (1865-1933) -- Eve-song -- Measure -- Old Botany Bay -- Australia --from: Ride on stranger / Kylie Tennant (1912-1988) -- from: Voss -- Prodigal son -- Miss Slattery and her demon lover / Patrick White (1912-1990) -- from: My brother Jack / George Johnston (1912-1970) -- Boomerang racket / Joe Timbery (1912-1978) -- Green centipede -- Fierce country -- Marree -- Afghan -- Place names -- Sombrero / Douglas Stewart (1913-1985) -- Ahh-bush-honey there! / Bill Neidjie (c 1913-2002) -- from: Diaries of Donald Friend / Donald Friend (1914-1989) -- Tomb of lieutenant John Learmonth, AIF / J S Manifold (1915-1985) -- South of my days -- Surfer -- Nigger's leap, New England -- Woman to man -- Eroded hills -- Two fires -- At Cooloolah -- Eve to her daughters -- Memory -- Skins / Judith Wright (1915-2000) -- Men in green -- Winter -- Kelly country -- Australian dream / David Campbell (1915-1979) -- from: History of Australia / Manning Clark (1915-1991) -- Yirrkala bark petition / Yirrkala People -- Letter to Mr H E Giese, director of Aboriginal welfare, NT / Narritjin Maymuru (c 1916-1981) -- from: Tirra Lirra by the river / Jessica Anderson (b 1916) -- Envoi -- Terra Australis -- Dialogue -- St John's park, New Town -- Credo -- Father, mother, son / James McAuley (1917-1976) -- First-born -- Black tracker -- Warru -- Integration -- Walker / Jack Davis (1917-2000) -- Dürer: Innsbruck, 1495 -- Night piece -- Petit testament / Ern Malley -- Gurindji petition to Lord Casey, Governor general / Vincent Lingiari (1919-1988) -- Christmas parcel / Olga Masters (1919-1986) -- from: Pride against prejudice / Ida West (1919-2003) -- Child with a cockatoo -- Over the frontier -- Almond-tree in the King James version -- Who? -- Reading aloud / Rosemary Dobson (b 1920) -- from: Sun on the stubble / Colin Thiele (1920-2006) -- Speech launching the petition of the federal council for Aboriginal advancement -- Aboriginal charter of rights -- Dispossessed -- We are going -- Assimilation-no! -- Integration-yes! -- Dawn is at hand -- No more boomerang -- Ballad of the totems / Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993) -- from: Aunts up the cross / Robin Dalton (b 1920) -- Father and child (part 1) -- Matinee -- Carnal knowledge II -- Andante -- Dialogue -- Mother who gave me life -- Bone scan -- Sick philosopher -- Letter to Tony Riddell / Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) -- from: Summer of the seventeenth doll / Ray Lawler (B 1921) -- from: Education of young Donald / Donald Horne (1921-2005) -- from: Auntie Rita / Rita Huggins (1921-1996) and Jackie Huggins (b 1956) -- from: East of time / Jacob G Rosenberg (1922-2008) -- Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod -- Grave fairytale -- Living dangerously -- from: Man from Mukinupin -- from: Wild card / Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002) -- Images in Aspic / Charmian Clift (1923-1969) -- from: Million wild acres / Eric Rolls (1923-2007) -- Night runner / Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007) -- from: Karobran / Monica Clare (1924-1973) -- Explorer's wife -- End of the picnic -- Eyre all alone (part 1) -- Ward two (parts 1 & 2) / Francis Webb (1925-1973) -- Golden builders (part 1) / Vincent Buckley (1925-1988) -- from: It's raining in Mango / Thea Astley (1925-2004) -- from: And I always been moving! / Jessie Lennon (c 1925-2000) -- from: One day of the year / Alan Seymour (b 1927) -- Letters to live poets (parts 1 & 6) / Bruce Beaver (1928-2004) -- Sydney cove, 1788 -- On this day I complete my fortieth year -- Sex and the over forties -- Exequy -- What I have written I have written / Peter Porter (b 1929) -- Evening -- Parellels / R A Simpson (1929-2002) -- from: Sacred places / K S Inglis (b 1929) -- from: Rush that never ended / Geoffrey Blainey (b 1930) -- Dragon of Kashmir / Mena Abdullah (b 1930) and Ray Mathew (1929-2002) -- Victorian hangman tells his love -- Homecoming -- And a good Friday was had by all / Bruce Dawe (b 1930) -- Ngalalak/white cockatoo -- Muralkarra/crow / Frank Malkorda (c 1930-1993) -- from People in glass houses / Shirley Hazzard (b 1931) -- from: Year of living dangerously / ChristophAt the laundromat -- Ode to Col Joye -- Country Veranda -- Having completed my fortieth year -- After Hölderlin / John Tranter (b 1943) -- Lizards / Barry Hill (b 1943) -- from: Sweet water-stolen land / Philip McLaren (b 1943) -- from: Sadness / William Yang (b 1943) -- from: Snake cradle / Roberta Sykes (b c 1943) -- from: Shark net / Robert Drewe (b 1943) -- Addendum to the first fleet journals / Gerard Windsor (b 1944) -- from: Mother's disgrace / Robert Dessaix (b 1944) -- Ghost of the Swagman / Paul Keating (b 1944) -- from: Glade within the grove / David Foster (b 1944) -- Migrant hostel / Peter Skrzynecki (b 1945) -- from: Damned whores and God's police / Anne Summers (b 1945) -- Diptych / Robert Gray (b 1945) -- One of the preambles -- Life cycle of the supermarket trolley -- How democracy actually works / Michael Leunig (b 1945) -- From little things big things grow / Kev Carmody (b 1946) -- Poem for Gran / John Muk Muk Burke (b 1946) -- from: Stravinsky's lunch / Drusilla Modjeska (b 1946) -- Sea-cucumber -- Typewriter, considered as a bee-trap / Martin Johnston (1947-1990) -- Slaughters of the Bulumwaal butcher / Bruce Pascoe (b 1947) -- Sitting, wondering, do I have a place here? / Errol West (1947-2001) -- from: Patrick White / David Marr (b 1947) -- from: Camille's bread / Amanda Lohrey (b 1947) -- Wool pickers / Alf Taylor (b 1947) -- Pas de Deux for lovers -- Fix -- Flying / Michael Dransfield (1948-1973) -- Pride of Erin -- Plato's dog / John Scott (b 1948) -- Barunga statement / Galarrwuy Yunupingu (b 1948) -- Muse of Bauxite -- Child's Christmas in Warrnambool / John Clarke (b 1948) -- Welcome speech to conference on the position of Indigenous people in national constitutions / Patrick Dodson (b 1948) -- At the wall / Pam Brown (b 1948) -- Value of writers / Rosie Scott (b 1948) -- from: Lovemakers -- Come on Aussie / Alan Wearne (b 1948) -- Rain governs the small hours / Alan Gould (b 1948) -- from: Ash range -- from: Epigrams of martial -- Drinking socially -- Air time / Laurie Duggan (b 1949) -- from: Wandering girl / Glenyse Ward (b 1949) -- Paris to Pam Brown / Ken Bolton (b 1949) -- Uluru by champagne -- Emily Kngwarreye / Jennifer Martiniello (b 1949) -- Your voice is my flute / Yahia Al-Samawy (b 1949) -- Dracula on the Monaro -- Old Europe stared at her breakfast / Jennifer Maiden (b 1949) -- Box / Kevin Brophy (b 1949) -- To the bobbydazzlers -- Stalin's holidays -- Ode/'goodbye memory' -- Speed, a pastoral -- Love poem -- Anzac day / John Forbes (1950-1998) -- from: Lilian's story / Kate Grenville (b 1950) -- Tunnel rats of Phuoc Tuy / Kenny Laughton (b 1950) -- Seeing Gallipoli from the sky / Philip Salom (b 1950) -- from: Radiance / Louis Nowra (b 1950) -- We all bear the cost if apology is not paid / Mick Dodson (b 1950) -- from: Plains of promise -- from: Carpentaria / Alexis Wright (b 1950) -- from: Shanghai dancing / Brian Castro (b 1950) -- Australia -- Little red riding hood / Ania Walwicz (b 1951) -- from: My place / Sally Morgan (b 1951) -- from: Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on television / Marcia Langton (b 1951) -- All will be revealed -- Sun pictorial / Stephen Edgar (b 1951) -- Night before your return / Jill Jones (b 1951) -- Kiss -- Australia / Peter Goldsworthy (b 1951) -- from: Kadaitcha sung / Sam Watson (b 1952) -- Facing the Pacific at night -- Calm / Kevin Hart (b 1954) -- from: Monkey's mask / Dorothy Porter (b 1954-2008) -- from: Away / Michael Gow (b 1955) -- Six feet of land rights -- Holocaust island / Graeme Dixon (b 1955) -- Took the children away / Archie Roach (b 1955) -- Modernity / Gail Jones (b 1955) -- Donatello in Wangaratta -- from: Rose boys / Peter Rose (b 1955) -- Ungrateful immigrant -- Listening to the Chinese woman philosopher / Ouyang Yu (b 1955) -- If I had a gun -- Hay fever -- Critique of pure reason / Gig Ryan (b 1956) -- Gurrwayi Gurrwayi, the rain bird -- Wangkaja, the mangrove crab / Pat Torres (b 1956) -- Treaty / Mandawuy Yunup
ISBN:
9780393072617
Dewey class:
820.8AUST820.8
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
4327
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | AUST820.8 LIT | AvailableRecently returned |