The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities is a collection of
essays expanding the concepts of “ghost” and “haunting” beyond literary tools used to add …

What I would insist upon is the importance of keeping in mind when doing a local or a
national case study the wider frame of reference within which any case can be situated.[...] …

Cultural memory involves a community's shared memories, the selection of which is based
on current political and social needs. A past that is significant to a national group is re …

It was astonishing-to Charlie, at any rate, even after all those years, even after half his
lifetime spent on the kindergarten side of world history-it was astonishing what Australians …

Australian society functioned under the Immigration Restriction Act from 1901 until the
1970s, and relatively little has been written about Chinese Australian lives and experiences …

The 'cultural cringe'was a powerful force shaping Australian ideas in the post-war years.
Struggling with both the heavy cultural shadow of Britain and the brutal apathy of Australian …

This thesis explored the wider theoretical and creative potential of HAlA'ne Cixous' concept
of Acriture faminine. Drawing on an analysis of poetics, it found that Cixous' writing …

This paper refers to accounts of previous journeys on the'laksa trail'in search of Peranakan
cuisine and its sensory nuances. These journeys have produced narratives of migration and …

This paper refers to accounts of previous journeys on the 'laksa trail'in search of Peranakan
cuisine and its sensory nuances. These journeys have produced narratives of migration and …

There are three key encounters of concern in this chapter that can be roughly categorised as
the colonial encounter, the multicultural encounter and the postcolonial encounter. The …