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Literary activists : writer-intellectuals and Australian public life / by Brigid Rooney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rooney, Brigid.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian literature--Study and teaching.
- Australian literature.
- Popular culture and literature--Australia.
- Popular culture and literature.
- Australia--Intellectual life.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Uniquely examining the link between Australian writers and social change, this study investigates the motives behind literary figures who strive to become activists and social intellectuals. Exploring this intimate connection, this resource asks what such a bond reveals about Australian literature and the power of the written word. With fresh insight, this guide delves into the activism, careers, and writings of Judith Wright, Patrick White, Oodgeroo of the tribe of Noonuccal, Les Murray, Helen Garner, David Malouf and Tim Winton.
- Contents:
- Literary Activists; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part 1 - Wright and White: Big figures in the cultural landscape; Chapter 1 - A play of opposites: Judith Wright's poetic-public crossings; Chapter 2 - Imagining the real: Patrick White's literary-political career; Part 2 - Inheritance, (dis)possession, poetry; Chapter 3 - Networks and shadows: the public sisterhood of Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Judith Wright; Chapter 4 - Inheritance and refusal: the properties of white Australian poetry; Part 3 - Fractured consensus: literary whiteness and belonging in the 1990's
- Chapter 5 - Alienating powers: Les Murray's poetry and politics Chapter 6 - Cultivating nation: the quiet diplomacy of David Malouf; Part 4 - Fragmentation and renewal: Australia's changing literary publics; Chapter 7 - J'accuse in the antipodes: Helen Garner's public interventions; Chapter 8 - Engaging the masses: Tim Winton, activism and the literary bestseller; CODA - Australian writer-intellectuals in the twenty-first century: legacy and future; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ENDNOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7022-4140-7
- OCLC:
- 609853393
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