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Vol 8 (2008)
Table of Contents
Articles
| The Black or Unfair Image: The Babington Letter as a Sonnet | Abstract Farrell6html |
| Michael Farrell |
| "Altogether better-bred looking": Race and Romance in the Australian Novels of Rosa Praed | Abstract Platt3html |
| Len Platt |
| The Racialised Self, Ecology and the Sacred in Xavier Herbert’s Poor Fellow My Country. | Abstract Herberthtml |
| Frances Devlin-Glass |
| Displaced from the Sacred Sites: David Foster’s In the New Country and The Land Where Stories End | Abstract Foster2mhtml |
| Susan Lever |
| "Our Own Way Back": Spatial Memory in the Poetry of David Malouf | Abstract Biito4html |
| Emily Bitto |
| Power, Vanishing Acts and Silent Watchers in Janette Turner Hospital's The Last Magician | Abstract Clarkmhtm |
| Maureen Clark |
Reviews
| A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 Ed. Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer | Details Bird2html |
| Delys Bird |
| The Littoral Zone Ed. CA Cranston and Robert Zeller | Details Taylorhtm |
| Cheryl Madeline Taylor |
| Just Words: Australian Authors Writing for Justice Ed. Bernadette Brennan Tolerance, Prejudice, Fear Gideon Haigh et al. | Details Tony2html |
| Tony Hughes-d'Aeth |
| Peter Kirkpatrick The Seacoast of Bohemia | Details Bongiorno4html |
| Frank Bongiorno |
| Ouyang Yu Bias Offensively Chinese-Australian | Details Habelhtml |
| Chad Sean Habel |