Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia

Mitchell Rolls, Anna Johnston

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'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history.

'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel—both vicarious and actual—'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their image of the nation and its place in the Pacific region. In this way, 'Walkabout' explicitly aimed to make its readers feel at home in their country, as well as including a diverse picture of Aboriginal and Pacific cultures. Given its wide availability and distribution, together with its accessible and entertaining content, 'Walkabout' changed how Australia was perceived, and the magazine is recalled with nostalgic fondness by most if not all of its former readers. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, 'Travelling Home' engages with key questions in literary, cultural, and Australian studies about national identity and modernity. The book’s diverse topics demonstrate how 'Walkabout' canvassed subtle and shifting fields of representation; as a result, this analysis produces complex and nuanced readings of Australian literary and cultural history.

Introduction: Making Mid-Twentieth-Century Opinion; 1. Walkabout: The Magazine; 2. Writing Walkabout; 3. Peopling Australia: Writers, Anthropologists and Aborigines; 4. Advertising Australia: Development, Modernity and Commerce; 5. Transforming Country: Natural History and Walkabout; 6. Knowing Our Neighbours: The Pacific Region; Conclusion: ‘Walkabout Rocks’

Sujets

• HISTORY
• Popular culture
• Social sciences

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• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 06 juillet 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783085392
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Travelling Home, Walkabout Magazine and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia
Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
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Nicole Moore - University of New South Wales, Australia
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Tanya Dalziell - University of Western Australia, Australia
Delia Falconer - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia​
John Frow - University of Sydney, Australia
Wang Guanglin - Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China
Ian Henderson - King s College London, United Kingdom
Tony Hughes-D Aeth - University of Western Australia, Australia
Ivor Indyk - University of Western Sydney, Australia
Nicholas Jose - University of Adelaide, Australia
James Ley - Sydney Review of Books , Australia
Susan Martin - La Trobe University, Australia
Andrew McCann - Dartmouth College, United States
Elizabeth McMahon - University of New South Wales, Australia
Susan Martin - La Trobe University, Australia
Brigitta Olubus - University of New South Wales, Australia
Anne Pender - University of New England, Australia
Fiona Polack - Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Sue Sheridan - University of Adelaide, Australia
Ann Vickery - Deakin University, Australia
Russell West-Pavlov - Eberhard-Karls-Universit t T bingen, Germany
Lydia Wevers - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Gillian Whitlock - University of Queensland, Australia​
Travelling Home, Walkabout Magazine and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia
Mitchell Rolls and
Anna Johnston
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rolls, Mitchell, 1960- author. | Johnston, Anna, 1972- co-author.
Title: Travelling home, Walkabout magazine and mid-twentieth-century
Australia / Mitchell Rolls and Anna Johnston.
Description: London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, an imprint of
Wimbledon Publishing Company, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016022363| ISBN 9781783085378 (hardback) |
ISBN 1783085371 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Walkabout - History. | Australia - Description and
travel - Periodicals. | Travel - Social aspects - Australia - History - 20th century. | Periodicals - Social aspects - Australia - History - 20th century.|
Literature and society - Australia - History - 20th century. | National
characteristics, Australian - History - 20th century. |
Nationalism - Australia - History - 20th century. | Australia - Description
and travel. | Australia - Social life and customs - 20th century. |
Australia - Ethnic relations - History - 20th century. | BISAC: LITERARY
CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian. | HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand. |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Classification: LCC DU80.W33 R65 2016 | DDC 919.9404/05-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022363
ISBN-13: 978 1 78308 537 8 (Hbk)
ISBN-10: 1 78308 537 1 (Hbk)
This title is also available as an e-book.
For Hunter and Ruby, who we hope will grow up with a similar sense of wonder and curiosity about the world around them that Walkabout encouraged in its readers.
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Prefatory Notes, Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction: Making Mid-Twentieth-Century Opinion
1. Walkabout : The Magazine
2. Writing Walkabout
3. Peopling Australia: Writers, Anthropologists and Aborigines
4. Advertising Australia: Development, Modernity and Commerce
5. Transforming Country: Natural History and Walkabout
6. Knowing Our Neighbours: The Pacific Region
Conclusion: Walkabout Rocks
Notes
Index
FIGURES 0.1 Walkabout , November 1934, cover image, Head of Australian Aboriginal by E. O. Hopp (Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, TAHO) 1.1 Walkabout , January 1936, p. 15, Beautiful ghost gums of the interior (South Australian Centenary Committee) (TAHO) 1.2 Walkabout , February 1936, p. 61, Our cameraman s walkabout : Arltunga Police Station in the Never Never Country, east of Alice Springs, central Australia (TAHO) 1.3 Walkabout , April 1940, p. 33, Salt-bush country (TAHO) 1.4 Walkabout , January 1949, p. 17, The Australian Geographical Society s trucks near Nullagine on the Meekatharra-Marble Bar mail route, Western Australia (TAHO) 2.1 Group Portrait of Australian Authors , n.d. [1954?], National Library of Australia, Ion Idriess Glass Plate Negative Collection PIC/8807/82 LOC PIC Cold Store IDR Box 2.2 Walkabout , March 1952, p. 8, Ernestine Hill (TAHO) 2.3 Walkabout , January 1952, p. 8, Kylie Tennant (TAHO) 2.4 Walkabout , March 1936, p. 25, Anyone could see how he d swallow a man (photo: Otho Ebb) (TAHO) 2.5 Walkabout , March 1936, p. 27, Melbourne: city of broad tree-lined thoroughfares; east end of Collins St (TAHO) 2.6 Walkabout , March 1936, p. 31, The cereal breeder at work in the stud plots, crossing two varieties of oats. Note the bandaged head of oats on the right (TAHO) 2.7 Walkabout , March 1936, p. 41, Grass plain on the edge of the Nullarbor (TAHO) 2.8 Walkabout , April 1953, p. 42, Rex Ingamells (TAHO) 2.9 Walkabout , March 1952, p. 38, Frank Clune (TAHO) 3.1 Walkabout , December 1934, p. 37, Aboriginal all dressed up for a corroboree or native dance (TAHO) 3.2 Walkabout , December 1943, p. 4 (Uncaptioned) (TAHO) 3.3 Walkabout , February 1935, p. 32, Arnhem Land natives. On the left is a police boy (TAHO) 3.4 Walkabout , July 1936, p. 11, Weaving a basket in the Bloomfield camp (TAHO) 3.5 Walkabout , August 1946, p. 21, A legacy from the old Indonesian voyagers - the wooden dugout canoe, called lippa-lippa, with the typical mat sail made from the leaf of the Pandanus Palm. In these canoes, which generally vary from about 18 feet to 24 feet in length and with no keel or outriggers, the natives make long voyages along the coast and visit the outlying islands miles out in the open sea (TAHO) 3.6 Walkabout , December 1934, p. 24, Tommy, guide, philosopher and friend, who served with the expedition on Cape York Peninsular for three years, brings home a goanna for dinner (TAHO) 3.7 Walkabout , December 1934, p. 31, Palm Villa , headquarters of the expedition for many weeks during the first survey journey across Cape York Peninsular (TAHO) 3.8 Walkabout , May 1935, p. 23, The first process of yandying is to pour the sand from one dish to another to sift out the dust (TAHO) 3.9 Walkabout , January 1944, p. 8, Northern Australian Aborigines holding a fine pair of buffalo horns (TAHO) 3.10 Walkabout , February 1938, p. 18, Aboriginal women (gins) salting hides at Marrakai Station (TAHO) 3.11 Walkabout , May 1936, p. 41, Typical station blacks (TAHO) 3.12 Walkabout , February 1942, p. 24, Aboriginal shooter with a big crocodile near Darwin (photo: A. Innocenzi) (TAHO) 3.13 Walkabout , May 1936, p. 37, Station blacks at Innamincka, Western Queensland, about to leave on a walk-about (TAHO) 4.1 Walkabout , May 1943, p. 17, Fairy castles : toadstools ( Mycena subgalericulata ) photographed at Macquarie Pass, South Coast, New South Wales (TAHO) 4.2 Walkabout , May 1943, p. 18, Metals of war: the copper dressing section of the smelting works at Port Pirie, one of the largest individual lead-smelting and refining works in the world. The ladle carried by the overhead crane contains base bullion, or crude lead, and this is being poured into a large kettle for treatment for removal of copper (TAHO) 4.3 Walkabout , May 1938, p. 27, Mount Isa silver-lead mine, Western Queensland (TAHO) 4.4 Walkabout , June 1953, Cover photograph: Norwegian workmen leaving an adit to the Guthega-Munyang Tunnel (photo: Snowy Mountain Authority) (TAHO) 4.5 Walkabout , August 1948, p. 30, The dense wall of whip-stick tea-tree exposed as a result of rolling operations. Taken in 1943 (TAHO) 4.6 Walkabout , August 1948, p. 31, Established pasture of white clover, strawberry clover, perennial rye grass, and cocksfoot. Taken in 1947 (TAHO) 4.7 Walkabout , March 1935, p. 14, Everlasting flowers: a vast, unbroken carpet of white and gold and blue splashes of colour made by the myriad wildflowers (TAHO) 4.8 Walkabout , April 1935, p. 13, The barking lizard (TAHO) 4.9 Walkabout , June 1936, p. 45, Horned dragons from Alice Springs (TAH