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Main Title: Island in the stream : myths of place in Australian culture / edited by Paul Foss.
Author: Foss, Paul.
Imprint: Pluto Press, 1988.
Collation: 235 pages : illustrations (some color), facsims., maps., paperback ; 25 cm.
Subject: Australia
Landscapes
Cinemas and theatres
Immigrants and immigration
Art and artists
Chinese
Photographers and photography
ISBN: 0949138231
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references.
Bibliography: p.[216]-232.

Contents: Landscape without landscape: prefatory remarks / Paul Foss -- This prison this language: Thomas Watling's 'Letters from an exile at botany bay (1794) / Ross Gibson -- The journey home / Peter Lyssiotis -- Home and away: nostalgia in Australian (migrant) writing / Sneja Gunew -- Invisible journeys: exploration and photography in Australia, 1839-1889 / Paul Carter -- Disaggregating landscape and nation in Chauvel / Stuart Cunningham -- New guests: the Chinese in Australia / Eric Rolls -- 1938-1988: modified myths / Robyn Stacey -- Fred McCubbin on the Wallaby Track 1896/Julie Brown-Rrap on the bandwagon 1988 / Julie Brown-Rrap -- The wreck and Bivouac / Juan Davila -- les romans de cape et d'epee I / Susan Norrie -- Untitled ("A condition of suspended confusion...") / Imants Tillers -- No flowers for the cinephile: the fates of cultural populism, 1960-1988 / Adrian Martin -- On 'Housing' Aborigines: the case of Wilcannia, 1974 / Peter Myers -- Panorama: the live, the dead and the living / Meaghan Morris -- From the ethnographic to the aesthetic: an examination of the relationship between Aboriginal and European culture in Australian art, 1788-1988 / Colin Symes & Bob Lingard.

Includes Aboriginal-European relations; contributions by Peter Myers, and Colin Symes and Bob Lingard annotated separately.
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