Australians in Aspic: Picturing Charmian Clift's and George Johnston's Expatriation

This paper considers how the expatriation of Australian authors Charmian Clift and George Johnston on the Greek island of Hydra has been represented photographically in a recently uncovered archive of over 1500 images. The photographs were taken by Life Magazine staff photographer James Burke in the...

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Main Authors: Dalziell, T., Genoni, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Published: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 2015
Online Access:http://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10568/10446
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36969
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description This paper considers how the expatriation of Australian authors Charmian Clift and George Johnston on the Greek island of Hydra has been represented photographically in a recently uncovered archive of over 1500 images. The photographs were taken by Life Magazine staff photographer James Burke in the summer of 1960. The analysis of the photographs is juxtaposed at key points with text from Clift's memoir Peel Me a Lotus, and the discussion focuses on the way the interplay between image and text produces supportive and/or contested representations of this particular experience of Australian literary expatriation.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-369692017-01-30T13:58:49Z Australians in Aspic: Picturing Charmian Clift's and George Johnston's Expatriation Dalziell, T. Genoni, Paul This paper considers how the expatriation of Australian authors Charmian Clift and George Johnston on the Greek island of Hydra has been represented photographically in a recently uncovered archive of over 1500 images. The photographs were taken by Life Magazine staff photographer James Burke in the summer of 1960. The analysis of the photographs is juxtaposed at key points with text from Clift's memoir Peel Me a Lotus, and the discussion focuses on the way the interplay between image and text produces supportive and/or contested representations of this particular experience of Australian literary expatriation. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36969 http://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10568/10446 Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature fulltext
spellingShingle Dalziell, T.
Genoni, Paul
Australians in Aspic: Picturing Charmian Clift's and George Johnston's Expatriation
title Australians in Aspic: Picturing Charmian Clift's and George Johnston's Expatriation
title_full Australians in Aspic: Picturing Charmian Clift's and George Johnston's Expatriation
title_fullStr Australians in Aspic: Picturing Charmian Clift's and George Johnston's Expatriation
title_full_unstemmed Australians in Aspic: Picturing Charmian Clift's and George Johnston's Expatriation
title_short Australians in Aspic: Picturing Charmian Clift's and George Johnston's Expatriation
title_sort australians in aspic: picturing charmian clift's and george johnston's expatriation
url http://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10568/10446
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36969