Article ID: CBB825415318

Becoming “Pacific-Minded”: Australian Middlebrow Writers in the 1940s and the Mobility of Texts (March 2017)

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Johnston, Anna (Author)


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Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Pages: 88-107


Publication Date: March 2017
Edition Details: Special Section on Print Culture, Mobility, and the Pacific, 1920–1950
Language: English

The travel writer Frank Clune saw World War II as a turning point in Australia’s consciousness, turning its inhabitants’ attention to the Pacific region. Similarly, the writer Ernestine Hill was delighted to find new American markets for her Australian books in wartime as troops were mobilized across the Pacific theater. In America, as Janice Radway has shown, the sentimental mode of “middlebrow personalism” enabled writers to engage their readers in wider geopolitical affairs. Middlebrow intellectuals, texts, and institutions were crucial in educating Americans about their evolving midcentury relationships with Asia, just as writers such as Clune and Hill educated Australians about the Pacific: a coalition of American and Australian mobilities and imaginaries in middlebrow midcentury print culture. This article examines the multiple ways in which these books and their writers “made Australia” in terms of a regional imaginary that extended across the Pacific during this period.

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Article Victoria Kuttainen; Susann Liebich (March 2017) Print Culture, Mobility, and the Pacific, 1920–1950: Introduction to Special Section. Transfers (pp. 26-33). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Liebich, Susann
Kuttainen, Victoria
Steel, Frances
Furniss, Tom
Halter, Nicholas
Eleanor Hogan
Concepts
World War II
Travel writing
Mobility
Mobility studies
Culture
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Australia
Pacific Ocean
France
India
Great Britain
Falkland Islands
Institutions
Google
Australian Red Cross Society
London Zoo
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