Robin, I have no CJ Dennis on my shelves: have some respect,
please.(Joking here.)
The Mitchell library is in Sydney and many an hour have spent did I in
the reading rooms, armed with only a pencil and notebook. (You have to
lock everything up in a locker, which meant I could not bring my 9mm Uzi
and Glock with me.)
The push happened in Sydney around 1940s to 70s... hang on I will do a
search:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Push
www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/push/
According to some, including many former members, the Sydney Push was a
drunken gang of logorrhoeac poseurs, that no-one could take seriously —
in Barry ...
www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/push.html
Anti-narrative in Aust is not my term but refers to an historian at
ANU... will have search out her name, can't remember except to say she
was my dean when an undergrad... anti-narrative is a complex thing from
what I make out.
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:36 +0000, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>
> The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954), Saturday 23 June 1945, page 11
>
> Alongside Slang and Twang Emerges "Standard Australian"
>
> "Yet here, perhaps, is one of the most fruitful sources of indigenous
> writing. No one who has seen in the Mitchell Library the broadsheet verse
> and prose circulated among the old Sydney "pushes" will doubt the ability of
> the larrikin to express himself in vigorous new ways."
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