Tag: Tasmania

  • She was one of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and ’40s. A screen siren with smouldering looks, exotic features and almond-shaped eyes. Merle Oberon was described as graceful and hauntingly beautiful.

  • Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman Magabala Books January 2009 164 pages 240 x 165 Paperback ISBN: 9781921248108 Helen Gee and Ronnie Summers Musician, storyteller and craftsman, Ronnie Summers recalls the freedom of growing up on Cape Barren Island and how the island’s music shaped his life. He draws on a childhood working the muttonbird islands, a ‘kangaroo…

  • Racial Ambiguity and Whiteness in Brian Castro’s Drift Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia Volume 2, Number 2, 2009 pages 113-126 ISSN 2013-6897 Marilyne Brun, Lecturer in Postcolonia Studies Université Nancy 2 This article focuses on Drift, the fifth novel of contemporary Australian writer, Brian Castro, and concentrates on the ambiguous racial…