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‘A world-proof life’

Eleanor Dark, a writer in her times, 1901-1985

By: Marivic Wyndham

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‘A world-proof life’

Eleanor Dark, a writer in her times, 1901-1985

By: Marivic Wyndham

Eleanor Dark (1901-1985) is one of Australia's most celebrated writers of the inter-war years. Born with the twentieth century - a Federation baby - she published ten novels, amongst them one of the best loved Australian stories of all time, The Timeless Land. Her life spanned successive global crises - two world wars, the economic depression of the 1930s, the Cold War - each issuing its own challenges to the artist and the people's writer she thought herself to be. By far the most privileged writer of her generation, her ultimate challenge was a personal one: to unlock the gates of her world-proof life to a society and a world in crisis. The first cross-cultural biography of this famous Australian writer, Marivic Wyndham's rich and controversial portrait of Eleanor Dark is based on extensive research of the author's public and private lives.

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UTS ePRESS

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0980284023

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9780980284027

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The struggle for memorialisation in Chile since the transition to democracy

By: Peter Read,Marivic Wyndham

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The struggle for memorialisation in Chile since the transition to democracy

By: Peter Read,Marivic Wyndham

On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination, and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with worldwide debates about why and how deeds of violence inflicted by the state on its own citizens should be remembered, and by whom. The sites investigated — including the infamous National Stadium — are among the most iconic of more than 1,000 such sites throughout the country. The study grants a glimpse of the depth of feeling that survivors and the families of the detained-disappeared and the politically executed bring to each of the sites. The book traces their struggle to memorialise each one, and so unfolds their idealism and hope, courage and frustration, their hatred, excitement, resentment, sadness, fear, division and disillusionment. ‘This is a beautifully written book, a sensitive treatment of the issues and lives of those who have faced a great deal of loss, most often as unsung heroes, in what are now recognized as Chilean sites of memory. The book is a testament to people who have not been asked to speak, until Peter Read and Marivic Wyndham ask them to tell their stories. They do not shy away from hard tensions about memorialization, the difficulties of challenging a powerful state and the long and arduous struggles to ensure less powerful voices are heard.’ — Professor Katherine Hite, Frederick Ferris Thompson Chair of Political Science, Vassar College, USA.

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ANU Press

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1760460222

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9781760460228

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The Struggle for Memorialisation in Chile Since the Transition to Democracy

By: Peter Read,Marivic Wyndham

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The Struggle for Memorialisation in Chile Since the Transition to Democracy

By: Peter Read,Marivic Wyndham

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1760460214

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9781760460211

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By: Peter Read,Marivic Wyndham

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A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

The Formation of Identities

By: Donald Denoon,Philippa Mein-Smith,Marivic Wyndham

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A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

The Formation of Identities

By: Donald Denoon,Philippa Mein-Smith,Marivic Wyndham

This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours. By broadening the focus to the regional level, this volume develops analyses - of economic, social and political history - which transcend national boundaries. The result is a compelling work which both describes the aspirations of European settlers and reveals how the dispossessed and marginalized indigenous peoples negotiated their own lives as best they could. The authors demonstrate that these stories are not separate but rather strands of a single history. The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631218734

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9780631218739

History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Donald Denoon,Philippa Mein-Smith,Marivic Wyndham

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By: Donald Denoon,Philippa Mein-Smith,Marivic Wyndham

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A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

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