Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing: An Anthology - Softcover

9780195536867: Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing: An Anthology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019553686X ISBN 13: 9780195536867

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

In this landmark collection of Australian writing spanning well over a century, and Australia emerges which is radically different from the clichDed land of bronzed lifeguares and long-suffering sheepfarmers' wives. Robert Dessaix's anthbology reflects the diversity, non-vonformity, and ambiguity that have always been features of Australian society. An anthology of gay themes, rather than gay writers, it includes works by most of the country's celebrated authors, including Patrick White, Thea Astley, David Malouf, Elizabeht Jolley, Frank Moorhouse, and Helen Garner, along with a number of newer writer.^L A rare and refreshing openness permeates the entertaining and provocative volume. Through the fiction, poetry, and drama of over forty writer, hte collection traces th development of a rich variety of gay and lesbian sensibilities from colonial times to the present. Dessaix provides a long and helpful introductory overview of the literature.^L Ranging from the poetic to the polemical, the enigmatic to the erotic, this anthology celebrated the adventurousness and sophistication of Australian cultural history.

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About the Author:

Robert Dessaix is a well-known journalist, essayist, and the presenter of Radio National's "Books and Writing."

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