Abstract
The following is a transcript of the 2004 Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Lecture presented at Mackay by Profesor Peter Pierce, Chair of Australian Literature at James Cook University.
Highlights
The following is a transcript of the 2004 Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Lecture presented at Mackay by Profesor Peter Pierce, Chair of Australian Literature at James Cook University
My topic is ‘Literature and Art of North Queensland’, but knowing that I was coming to Mackay I was initially distracted by another interest, and tempted to ask who was the most famous sportsperson to be born here? This person was the child of a Mackay sugar farmer and early on did it hard
Let me introduce the body of this talk with some words by a writer who spent a good deal of her life abroad, in escape from the moral and professional strictures that she experienced in Australia
Summary
The following is a transcript of the 2004 Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Lecture presented at Mackay by Profesor Peter Pierce, Chair of Australian Literature at James Cook University. Tropic Days: Literature and Art of North Queensland The title of this excursion into the literature and art of North Queensland (north from and including Mackay that is) comes from one of the four books by Edmund James Banfield that were inspired by his long sojourn on Dunk Island.
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