Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend

Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend

Australian women's war fictions

Coates, Dr Donna

Sydney University Press

11/2023

370

Mole

Inglês

9781743329245

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1: World War I fictions
Chapter 1: The Digger on the lofty pedestal: Australian women's fictions of the Great War
Chapter 2: "Guns 'n' roses": Mollie Skinner's intrepid Great War fictions
Chapter 3: (Not) talking back: Australian women novelists lose the great (linguistic) war
Chapter 4: Lesbia Harford's home-front warrior and women's World War I writing
Chapter 5: Sleeping with the enemy: Patriot games in fictions by Lesbia Harford, Gwen Kelly and Joan Dugdale
Chapter 6: Demilitarising a military culture: Brenda Walker's The Wing of Night

Part 2: World War II fictions
Chapter 7: Damn(ed) Yankees: The Pacific's not pacific anymore
Chapter 8: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" in the film adaptation of Come in Spinner
Chapter 9: Country matters in the Little (Southern Steel) Company
Chapter 10: Reality bites: The impact of World War II on the Australian home front in Maria Gardner's Blood Stained Wattle and Robin Sheiner's Smile, the War Is Over
Chapter 11: Loving thine enemies: Representations of Italian prisoners of war in contemporary Australian women's World War II fictions
Chapter 12: Lies, secrets and silences: Prisoners-of-war in World War II Australian women's novels
Chapter 13: No hell like peacetime: Going (down) under in the land of the "fair go" Chapter 14: The new "Anzacs two" make their debut in contemporary Australian women's fictions

Part 3 The Vietnam War
Chapter 15: Coming home: The return of the (Australian Vietnam War) soldier
Chapter 16: "All we are saying is give peace a chance": The Vietnam war protest movement in Australian women's fictions by Janine Burke, Patricia Cornelius, Nuri Mass and Wendy Scarfe
Chapter 17: 'O what a lovely war: No more shooting blanks in Helen Nolan's Between the Battles: A Novel

Conclusion: Boomerangs do come back
Works cited
Index
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Anzac;war;Anzac mythology;20th century fiction;Australian nationhood;Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS);World War I;World War II;Vietnam War