| ISBN |
9781785271076 (hbk.) |
| 1785271075 (hbk.) |
| Author |
Magner, Brigid (author.) |
| Title |
Locating Australian literary memory / Brigid Magner. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
London : Anthem Press, 2020. |
| Description |
viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture |
| Note |
Located in Glass Cabinet in Local History Room. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
'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. |
| Subjects |
Mary Poppins -- Maryborough (Qld.) |
| Travers, P. L -- 1899-1996 |
| Authors, Australian -- History |
| Australian literature |
| Australian literature -- History and criticism |
| Memorials -- Australia |
| Maryborough (Qld.) -- History |
| Series |
Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture |
| Call number |
2020.150 |
