| Description |
288 pages ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction / Arnold Zable -- Night of the living wog / Dmetri Kakmi (Turkey) -- Stealing from Little Saigon / Alice Pung (Cambodia) -- The beast, the accent / Maria Tumarkin (Russia) -- Swarte Piet / Michael Sala (Netherlands) -- Confessions of ditch-jumper / Meg Mundell (New Zealand) -- Pointing north / Paola Totaro (Italy) -- The uncanny / Chi Vu (Vietnam) -- An unanswered prayer / Malla Nunn (Swaziland) -- Staying away / Amy Espeseth (United States) -- The patron saint of excess baggage / Roanna Gonsalves (India) -- Backtracking / Michelle Aung Thin (Burma) -- Gun for hire / Chris Flynn (Ireland) -- Cracker night / Diane Armstrong (Poland) -- On other belongings / Ghassan Hage (Lebanon) -- When shall we get back to our country? / Duyang Yu (China) -- The crappiest refugee / Danny Katz (Canada) -- Nineteen eighty-eight / Mark Dapin (United Kingdom) -- Hidden by the dream / Deborah Carlyon (Papua New Guinea) -- Here, there / Adib Khan (Bangladesh) -- Sally / Ali Alizadeh (Iran) -- The range hood and the grease / Lily Yulianti Farid (Indonesia) -- "I have three wounds" : of life, love and death / Juan Garrido-Salgado (Chile) -- To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee / Catherine Rey (France) -- Home and (take) away / Shalini Akhil (Fiji) -- Deliberations of a reasonably domesticated immigrant / Val Colic-Peisker (Croatia) -- Her and there and over the sea to sky / Hsu-Ming Teo (Malaysia) -- Tape and memory / Samina Yasmeen (Pakistan) |
| Summary |
As with all shifts and turns in life, story matters. Joyful Strains collects 27 memoirs from writers describing their expatriation to Australia. Some have become household names, others quietly enrich their adopted home. All have had unique and fascinating experiences |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Subject |
Australian literature -- Minority authors.
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Authors, Australian -- Anecdotes.
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Authors, Australian -- 20th century.
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Ethnic groups.
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Immigrants' writings -- Australia.
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Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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Immigrants' writings, Australian.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Anecdotes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294
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Australia -- Biography http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114302 -- Anecdotes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294
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Australia -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114302
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Australia -- Emigration and immigration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007504 -- Anecdotes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294
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Australia -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007504
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Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- Anecdotes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294
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Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Lemer, Ali, editor, editor
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MacCarter, Kent, editor
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| LC no. |
2012517585 |
| ISBN |
9780987308535 (paperback) |
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