Download or read book The Stranger from Melbourne written by Paul Adams and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Hardy was both a writer and a conspicuous public figure. So huge is his public legacy that it often overshadows the literary work and the books he wrote, many of which are no longer in print. Mr. Hardy may not have been the greatest writer Australia has ever produced, but he was perhaps one of the greatest literary risk takers and experimenters. This book looks at Hardy the writer and Hardy the public/private historical figure - from the halcyon days of Australian Communism in the forties - to the period following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. These years, 1944-1975, represent some of the key trurning points in Hardy's writing and in particular, the significant changes in his relationship to the Communist Party of Australia, which are central to understanding his writing.
Download or read book The Stranger s Guide to Sydney written by James William Waugh and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stranger Upstairs written by Lisa M. Matlin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people wouldn’t buy an infamous murder house to renovate for fun . . . but Sarah Slade is not most people. “This debut novel deftly explores our shadows—the dark parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. I couldn’t stop reading.”—Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A therapist and self-help writer with all the answers, Sarah has just bought a gorgeous Victorian in the community of her dreams. Turns out you can get a killer deal on a house where someone was murdered. Plus, renovating Black Wood House makes for great blog content and a potent distraction from her failing marriage. Good thing nobody knows that her past is as tainted as the bloodstain on her bedroom floor. But the renovations are fast becoming a nightmare. Sarah imagined custom avocado wallpaper, massive profits, and an appreciative husband who would want to share her bed again. Instead, the neighbors hate her guts and her husband still sleeps on the couch. And though the builders attempt to cover up Black Wood’s horrifying past, a series of bizarre accidents, threatening notes, and unexplained footsteps in the attic only confirm for Sarah what the rest of the town already knows: Something is very wrong in that house. With every passing moment, Sarah’s life spirals further out of control—and with it her sense of reality. But as she peels back the curling wallpaper and discovers the house’s secrets, she realizes that the deadly legacy of Black Wood House has only just begun.
Download or read book Room for a Stranger written by Melanie Cheng and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. From the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, this tender, moving portrait of an improbable friendship and multicultural Australia more broadly, is now available in a new compact paperback edition.
Download or read book The ambulator or The stranger s companion in a tour round London collected by a gentleman J Bew written by John Bew and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stranger s Vade Mecum Or Liverpool Described written by David Purdie Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mediating Multiculturalism written by Daniella Trimboli and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using digital storytelling—a new media genre that began in California in the late 1990s and that proliferated across ‘the West’ in the 2000s—as a site of analysis, this book asks, ‘What is done in the name of the everyday?’ Like everyday multiculturalism, digital storytelling is promoted as an accessible, enabling, and ordinary phenomenon that represents cultural experience more accurately than official sites. As such, the genre frequently houses stories of migration, community, and ethnic and racial differences. In turn, digital story collections often act as digital monuments or repositories of multiculturalism, giving a digital life to narratives of migration, cultural difference, and national belonging. This is evidenced in one of the world’s largest public collections of digital stories, found in the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and referenced throughout this book. Using examples from this collection and pointing to comparable ones in the UK and North America, this book investigates how notions of the everyday become a channel through which certain long-standing discourses of race get redeployed in multicultural nations. What can digital storytelling teach us about the status and future of multiculturalism in these societies? Can digital storytelling re-mediate multiculturalism in new, progressive ways?
Download or read book Melbourne Punch written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth Century Victoria written by Leigh Boucher and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents a serious re-examination of existing work on the Aboriginal history of nineteenth-century Victoria, deploying the insights of postcolonial thought to wrench open the inner workings of territorial expropriation and its historically tenacious variability. Colonial historians have frequently asserted that the management and control of Aboriginal people in colonial Victoria was historically exceptional; by the end of the century, colonies across mainland Australia looked to Victoria as a ‘model’ for how to manage the problem of Aboriginal survival. This collection carefully traces the emergence and enactment of this ‘model’ in the years after colonial separation, the idiosyncrasies of its application and the impact it had on Aboriginal lives. It is no exaggeration to say that the work on colonial Victoria represented here is in the vanguard of what we might see as a ‘new Australian colonial history’. This is a quite distinctive development shaped by the aftermath of the history wars within Australia and through engagement with the ‘new imperial history’ of Britain and its empire. It is characterised by an awareness of colonial Australia’s positioning within broader imperial circuits through which key personnel, ideas and practices flowed, and also by ‘local’ settler society’s impact upon, and entanglements with, Aboriginal Australia. The volume heralds a new, spatially aware, movement within Australian history writing. – Alan Lester This is a timely, astutely assembled and well nuanced collection that combines theoretical sophistication with empirical solidity. Theoretically, it engages knowledgeably but not uncritically with a broad range of influences, including postcolonialism, the new imperial history, settler colonial studies and critical Indigenous studies. Empirically, contributors have trawled an impressive array of archival sources, both standard and relatively unknown, bringing a fresh eye to bear on what we thought we knew but would now benefit from reconsidering. Though the collection wears its politics openly, it does so lightly and without jeopardising fidelity to its sources. – Patrick Wolfe
Download or read book The Australian Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The history of Melbourne in the county of Derby written by John Joseph Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction written by Ken Gelder and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the editors of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction comes this fascinating collection of disturbing mysteries and gruesome tales by authors such as Mary Fortune, James Skipp Borlase, Guy Boothby, Francis Adams, Ernest Favenc, 'Rolf Boldrewood' and Norman Lindsay, among many others. In the bush and the tropics, the goldfields and the city streets, colonial Australia is a troubling, bewildering place and almost impossible to regulate—even for the most vigilant detective. Ex-convicts, bushrangers, ruthless gold prospectors, impostors, thieves and murderers flow through the stories that make up this collection, challenging the nascent forces of colonial law and order. The landscape itself seems to stimulate criminal activity, where identities change at will and people suddenly disappear without a trace. The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction is a remarkable anthology that taps into the fears and anxieties of colonial Australian life.
Download or read book Reimagining Home in the 21st Century written by Justine Lloyd and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing ways of reimagining home, this book demonstrates that thinking differently about home advances our understanding of processes of belonging. Authors in this collection explore home in relation to the figure of the stranger and public space, as well as with a focus on practices of dwelling and materialities. Through these frameworks, the collection as whole suggests that our home does not ‘belong’ to us, rather we ‘belong’ to home.
Download or read book On the Wallaby through Victoria written by E. M. Clowes and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not supposed to be a national or political history of Victoria. When I was asked to write something about the country which has extended its hospitality to me, and given me bread and cheese—sometimes no cheese, it is true, and more often than not no butter, but still always bread, and an ever-increasing appetite—I must confess I felt frankly scared. There is a very good, if somewhat vulgar, expression in use out here, which speaks of anyone who attempts what is beyond them as "biting off more than they can chew." And the thought frightened me. There seemed to be so many people who had lived all their life in the country, and were therefore much more capable of writing about it than I could ever possibly hope to be. However, I found that other "fools rushed in," who had been here for even a shorter period than myself; who had never participated in any way in the true life of the country, or depended on it for their own life, which after all teaches one more than anything else ever can about a place. I may not be an p. vi"angel," I thought, still I know it, which is one point in my favour; and, after all, eight years can scarcely be described as a "rush." Besides, every proverb and popular saying seems to be balanced by another which is completely contradictory—and while it may be true that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread," it is also true "that lookers-on see most of the game," and perhaps score somewhat in the freshness of their impressions and in their facilities for comparison. As it is I can only write about Victoria as I know it. There are many mistakes that I may have made through my inability to see all sides of a question; but they are at least honest mistakes, and not the deliberate misstatement of facts, from which Australia has so often suffered.
Download or read book Australia written by Robert Montgomery Martin and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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