Author : Brigid Magner
Release : 2019-11-22
Genre : Literary Collections
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Locating Australian Literary Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Locating Australian Literary Memory write by Brigid Magner. This book was released on 2019-11-22. Locating Australian Literary Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Locating Australian Literary Memory' explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations. It is orientated around eleven authors – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon – who have all been celebrated through a range of forms including statues, huts, trees, writers’ houses and assorted objects. Brigid Magner illuminates the social memory residing in these monuments and artefacts, which were largely created as bulwarks against forgetting. Acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enables them, she traverses the many contradictions, ironies and eccentricities of authorial commemoration in Australia, arguing for an expanded repertoire of practices to recognise those who have been hitherto excluded.