Contemporary Australian Short Stories

Author: Eminent ContributorsEditor: Santosh K SareenPublisher: Affiliated East-WestYear: 2001Language: EnglishPages: 154ISBN/UPC (if available): 8176710202 DescriptionThis collection reflects the literary and cultural tradition of Australia. This rich collection, from a country with which India shares a long history of story-telling, gives the Indian reader an opportunity to respond to a multitude of voices – those of the Aboriginal Australians, the Anglo-Celtic Australians, the immigrants and women. Their articulations reflect historical, political, social and cultural realities. History itself is creatively interrogated in the case of the Aboriginal Australians through reported oral narratives. These allude to the timeless mythological past and record their ways of dreaming, observing, knowing, conversing in their magical and mysterious world. In the case of the settler communities, the history of pioneering, of the hardships and encounters in the new land can be discerned; and in th