A Son of the Sea

A Son of the Sea
Author: John Arthur Barry
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A Son of the Sea by John Arthur Barry is a wild, shipwreck adventure following a young and lovable captain named Torre and written in an old literary style. Excerpt: "HIT him again, Torre! harder, oh harder, ever so much! Mind! he's got a stone! Oh, the great coward!" Thus shrilled a little girl as she danced, wild with excitement, around two boys, one considerably the stouter and heavier, who were doggedly pummelling each other in a secluded spot of the garden hidden from the house by a thick grove of laurels."

The Imaginary Australian

The Imaginary Australian
Author: Miriam Dixson
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780868406657

Examination of the nature of Australian national identity; includes reference to Aborigines discussed in terms of violence, racism, guilt, remorse and memory; questions the characterisation of race relations through forgetting and silence (Stanner) and violence (Rowley); argues that simplified historical narratives about race relations impede reparative energy in race relations; psychological understanding of racism; theories of the nation; crisis of history and time in Australia and its impact on identity.