Immigrant voices in recent Australian theatre

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Immigrant voices in recent Australian theatre

The plays and companies treated in this essay reveal a truism of immigrant experience: that the psychological adjustments required in migration are harder to achieve than the physical aspects of the process. Culture and identity are at the heart of the matter. Alienated from the adopted country'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pulford, Donald
Format:	Book Chapter
Published:	Melbourne University Press 2002
Subjects:	Culture Identity Immigrants Migration Australian theatre
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19809

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