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    Portrait of Louis Nowra, author, 1981, 1 [picture] /

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    Title devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981.; Inscriptions: "Louis Nowra 5/2/81, H de Berg"--In ink on verso of print.; Condition: Soiled, scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4728368

    Portrait of Louis Nowra, author, 1981, 2 [picture] /

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    Title devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981.; Inscriptions: "Louis Nowra 5/2/81, H de Berg"--In ink on verso of print.; Condition: Soiled, scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4728375

    Portrait of Louis Nowra, author, 1981, 3 [picture] /

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    Title devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981.; Inscriptions: "Louis Nowra 5/2/81, H de Berg"--In ink on verso of print.; Condition: Soiled, scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4728377

    Portrait of Louis Nowra, author, in front of a tree, 1981 [picture] /

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    Title devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981.; Inscriptions: "Louis Nowra 5/2/81, H de Berg"--In ink on verso of print.; Condition: Soiled, scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4728421

    Portrait of Louis Nowra, author, leaning on a railing, 1981 [picture] /

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    Title devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981.; Inscriptions: "Louis Nowra 5/2/81, H de Berg"--In ink on verso of print.; Condition: Soiled, scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4728382

    Dorothy "Dodi" Morrison recounts visit to Kettle River Museum, Midway

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    Segment from the 'Daybreak' program in which Morrison describes her visit to Kettle River Museum

    Transforming America : Toni Morrison and classical tradition

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    This thesis examines a significant but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's work: her ambivalent engagement with classical tradition. Analysing all eight novels. it argues that her allusiveness to the cultural practices of Ancient Greece and Rome is fundamental to her political project. Illuminating hegemonic America's consistent recourse to the classical world in the construction of its identity, I expand on prior scholarship by reading Morrison's own revisionary classicism as a subversion of dominant US culture. My three-part study examines the way her deployment of Graeco-Roman tradition destabilizes mythologies of the American Dream, prevailing narratives of America's history, and national ideologies of purity. Part I shows that Morrison enlists tragic conventions to problematize the Dream's central tenets of upward mobility, progress and freedom. It argues that while her engagement with Greek choric models effects her refutation of individualism, it is her later novels' rejection of a wholly catastrophic vision that enables her to avoid reinscribing the Dream. Part II demonstrates that it is through her classical allusiveness that Morrison rewrites American history. Her multiply-resonant echoes of the epic, pastoral and tragic traditions that have consistently informed the dominant culture's justifications for and representations of its actions enable her reconfiguration of colonization, of the foundation of the new nation, of slavery and its aftermath and of the Civil Rights Movement. Part III illuminates how the author uses the discourse of pollution or miasma to challenge Enlightenment-derived valorizations of racial purity and to expose the practices of scapegoating and revenge as flawed means to moral purity. Her interest in the hegemonic fabrication of classical tradition as itself a pure and purifying force is matched by her insistence on that tradition's African elements, and thus on its potent impurity. Her own radical classicism, therefore, is central to the transformation of America that her novels envision

    Portrait of Mary Durack, author, 1976 [picture] /

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    Title devised by cataloguer from accompanying information.; "Durack, Mary; 12/3/1976, Photog by Hazel de Berg"--Compactus card.; Condition: Scratched, soiled.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4778087; Lent for copying

    Portrait of Alison Dolling, author and historian, Adelaide, 1978 [picture] /

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    Title devised by cataloguer from accompanying information.; "Dolling, Alison. Writes under Mary Broughton, Hazel de Berg collection. From Adelaide Festival, South Australia"--Compactus card.; Condition: Scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4764650; Conversation with Alison Dolling (Mary Broughton); located at; National Library of Australia Oral History collection ORAL TRC1/1067

    I remember my mother at Seabrook

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    In this "I remember" memoir, Hazel Okino Ritchey remembers her mother, Alice Oda Okino. After Hazel's family moved to Seabrook from the Arkansas camp they were interned at, her mother began teaching at the Child Care Center at Seabrook. Later, she attended Glassboro State College for continuing education. Hazel also remembers that her mother was very kind, and Hazel's and her brother's friends would visit their house to spend time with Hazel's mother. The Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center has been soliciting current and past residents of Seabrook Farms for an "I remember" project. Residents are asked to create narratives regarding their experiences at Seabrook Farms. These memories help preserve the history and multi-cultural heritage of Seabrook Farms
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