RIS ID
37907
Abstract
My first encounter with Australian literature as such (that is, as more than a few works of children’s fiction read at home), was in high school in Papua New Guinea. There, we read Vance Palmer’s The Passage alongside Shakespeare in a setting that made both seem equally strange. It was an early and only dimly apprehended lesson in the cultural politics behind curricula.
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Publication Details
Sharrad, P. 2011, 'Les Murray in a Dhoti: Transnationalizing Australian literature', Antipodes: a North American journal of Australian literature, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 29-36.