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Session Details

Tuesday, 29 December

429. New Directions in Contemporary Australian Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Independence Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the American Association of Australian Literary Studies

Presiding: Nathanael O’Reilly, Univ. of Texas, Tyler

1. “Pam Brown’s Difference: How Language Operates in Australia,” Phillip Mead, Univ. of Western Australia

2. “Postcolonial Impressions in Jonathan Bennett’s Verandah People,” Peter Mathews, Centenary Coll.

3. “Tim Winton’s The Turning: Linking Stories to Locate an Australian Identity,” Esther Prokopienko, Coll. of Saint Rose

4. “Paradigm Shift in Contemporary Australian Fiction,” Samantha Young, Deakin Univ.

Author	Comment
Nicholas Birns The New Sch, Eugene Lang C 08 Jan 2010, 7:25 pm	Subject: Great panel! Despite the absence of one participant and the moderator, this was a great panel of three well-delviered papers, on three different genres (novel, short story and poetry), ranging from a 'mainstream' writer (Tim Winton) to an avant-garde one (Pam Brown), The questions from the floor, and the answers they elicited, were cogent and stimulating.