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Exposure
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ISBN: 1862549389 9781862549388 9781862549074 1862549079 1862548234 9781862548237 9781862548237 Year: 2010 Publisher: Kent Town, S. Aust. Wakefield Press

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Travel adventure, love story and tracicomedy, Exposure is about wanting too much, choosing too little, and how a person can spend three weeks solid in Los Angeles buying a sleeping bag.Joel Magarey's life would be fine if not for one thing - his brain. Prey to strange compulsions and grandiose visions, 25-year-old Joel abandons Australia, his job in journalism and his girlfriend, the wise and tender Penny, and sets off on the global journey of his dreams.Those dreams hadn't included nearly drowning in Alaska, setting fire to his tent on the Bolivian altiplano or terrifying a Korean family with


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Practices of Proximity
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ISBN: 1282650793 9786612650796 1443821667 9781443821667 9781443821612 1443821616 Year: 2010 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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Practices of Proximity investigates the appropriation of the English language taking place in the Australian literary contact zone between an official 'white' Australia-the apparent owners of both the land and the English language-and Australian Indigenous peoples. Rescuing the debate from seemingly peripheral locations-the 'empty' Great Sandy Desert, or the abject urban margin-it insists on the complex, ultimately open-ended and multilateral ownership of the English language by all who inhab...


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Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History.
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ISBN: 1283141833 1443826103 9786613141835 9781443826105 9781443825603 1443825603 9781283141833 6613141836 Year: 2010 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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Apocryphal and Literary Influences in Galway Disaporic History establishes that apocryphal stories, in all their transformations, contribute to collective memory. Common characteristics frame their analysis: irreducible and enduring elements, often embedded in archetypal drama; lack of historical verification; establishment in collective memory; revivals after periods of dormancy; subjection to political and economic manipulation; implicit speculation; and literary transformations. This book...

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