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Travelling home, Walkabout magazine and mid-twentieth-century Australia

Rolls, Mitchell 1960- (author.). Johnston, Anna, 1972- (co-author.).

Summary: "Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia's cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia's sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel--both vicarious and actual--'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their image of the nation and its place in the Pacific region. In this way, 'Walkabout' explicitly aimed to make its readers feel at home in their country, as well as including a diverse picture of Aboriginal and Pacific cultures. Given its wide availability and distribution, together with its accessible and entertaining content, 'Walkabout' changed how Australia was perceived, and the magazine is recalled with nostalgic fondness by most if not all of its former readers. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, Travelling Home engages with key questions in literary, cultural, and Australian studies about national identity and modernity. The book's diverse topics demonstrate how 'Walkabout' canvassed subtle and shifting fields of representation; as a result, this analysis produces complex and nuanced readings of Australian literary and cultural history"--

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ISBN: 9781783085378
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ISBN: 178308538X
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 243 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company, 2016.
Copyright: �2016

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General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Walkabout: The Magazine -- 2. Writing Walkabout -- 3. Peopling Australia : Writers, Anthropologists and Aborigines -- 4. Advertising Australia : Development, Modernity and Commerce -- 5. Transforming Country : Natural History and Walkabout -- 6. Knowing our Neighbours : The Pacific Region -- Conclusion: "Walkabout Rocks."
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.