http://hdl.handle.net/2328/15069 2013-05-22T00:51:49Z 2013-05-22T00:51:49Z Ricatti, Francesco http://hdl.handle.net/2328/15093 2013-05-13T01:37:40Z 2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Hurricanes, Snakes and Landlords: Class exploitation and the 'suburban dream' of Italians in Australia Authors: Ricatti, Francesco Abstract: Central to the social processes and economic development of Australia and many other western countries during the 1950s and early 1960s was the realisation of the 'suburban dream'. Considering the perspective of Italian women in Australia helps to uncover the class, gender and ethnic exploitation that sustained this dream. In this article, letters written by two Italian migrant women in the late 1950s and early 1960s are considered.

2008-11-01T00:00:00Z Rando, Gaetano http://hdl.handle.net/2328/15090 2013-05-13T01:37:29Z 2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Recent Perceptions of Rural Australia in Italian and Italian Australian Narrative Authors: Rando, Gaetano Abstract: Italian settlement in rural and outback areas of Australia during the late 1800s and early 1900s has remained a largely unsung saga while most Italians migrating to Australia after 1947 ultimately settled in urban areas. Few narrative writers have written about non-urban Australia in substantially social realist terms. More recently, this trend had taken a post-modern perspective in a few Italian Australian and Italian writers who depict the Australian outback as providing a solution to the protagonists' life quest and promote a discourse on nature as a dynamic, positive and vital element that contrasts with man's static negativism.

2008-11-01T00:00:00Z Kroll, Jeri http://hdl.handle.net/2328/15078 2013-05-13T01:37:26Z 2009-10-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Uneasy Bedfellows: Assessing the creative thesis and its exegesis Authors: Kroll, Jeri Abstract: Since creative writing is being formalised in coherent programs and assessment methods are under scrutiny, we must mediate the problematic relationship between this new discipline and the academy more effectively. Honours and postgraduate theses with a creative component are a growing industry in Australian universities. Students write fiction, poetry and drama as well as theorise their practice. Some create picture books and scrutinise the visual and verbal narratives. Students question their own efforts, however, in a manner that varies from literary critics. Whatever "ism" postgraduates favour, they have one thing in common. They are aware during the process of creation of how their understanding of what literature is affects their work. They make conscious decisions based on their critical formulations. Or do they?

2009-10-01T00:00:00Z Kroll, Jeri http://hdl.handle.net/2328/15077 2013-05-13T01:37:29Z 1998-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Imagination and Marketability: What do writers do for a living? Authors: Kroll, Jeri Abstract: If recent statistics are reliable, most Australian writers pursue their craft as a vocation, not as a means to a living wage. These statistics might not dampen the enthusiasm of students who might be years away from facing their implications, yet virtually all teachers of creative writing who have ever freelanced or tried to supplement their incomes in a meaningful way by publishing, realise the seriousness of them. This paper will first canvass the reasons students enrol in writing topics, then consider how realistic their aims are in light of current publishing practice and finally focus on three successful writers for young people to evaluate those aims in the light of professional experience.

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