10,612円 ‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960. It investigates changing notions of Australian girlhood across the period, and expl...

1,174円 In this thoughtful and thought-provoking essay, Andrew Frost contextualises the major thematic concerns of Rowan Woods' film The Boys into the broader context of social anxieties about violence, crime and morality. He chronicles his own personal journey with the film and its makers from art schoo...

1,643円 Based on Kenneth Cook’s classic novel, this film about bored schoolteacher John Grant getting caught in an outback nightmare of booze, racism, misogyny and bloodlust was made in 1971 and lost until 2004. In this insightful monograph, Tina Kaufman discusses what lies behind Wake in Fright: the gen...

1,174円 Set in the Northern Territory, Jedda tells the story of an Indigenous baby adopted by a white woman. She grows up with an expectation that she’ll marry a mixed-race stockman, only to be abducted by the bad, mad and ‘primitive’ Marbuk who lures her to her death. Many layers lie beneath the film’s ...

10,446円 This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family storytelling, memory, and postcolonial identity. Wit...

10,612円 Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse makes a dual intervention in both world literature and ecocriticism by examining magical realism as an international style of writing that has long-standing links with environmental literature. The book argues that, in the era of clim...

264円 Extrait : Au cours d’une navigation sur le lac Ladoga, tandis que nous allions de l’île de Konévetz à celle de Valaam, nous dûmes, pour les besoins du steamer, relâcher dans le port de Koréla. Plusieurs des nôtres descendirent à terre, curieux de visiter cette dernière localité, où les transporta...

10,280円 This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws o...

1,500円 Unlock the more straightforward side of The Book Thief with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, which follows nine-year-old Liesel as she leaves her mother forever to go and live with her new foster parent...

10,280円 Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss explores the history, ethics, and cross-cultural range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, loss, displacement, and other experiences of trauma. From Walt Whitman’s Civil War diaries to kitchen table survivor-to-survivor storytelling following Hur...

11,275円 Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writersーfrom canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to other...

3,708円 In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use alle...