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According to Wikipedia , Robin Gerster is an Australian author who was born in Melbourne and educated in Melbourne and Sydney. Formerly a Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Gerster has written prolifically on the cultural histories of war and travel, and on Western representations of Japan. As a postgraduate, he won the Australian War Memorial's inaugural C.E.W. Bean Scholarship, for a research project on Australian war literature. The PhD thesis that emerged from this research was subsequently published as Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing, which remains the landmark study in its field. In 1988, it won The Age Book of the Year Award in the non-fiction category.
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1990 2000 2010 0 12.5 25 37.5 50 62.5 75 87.5 100 112.5 125 Published Works Big-Noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing (1987) (68)Seizures of youth: The sixties and Australia (1991) (66)Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan (2008) (49)On the war-path : an anthology of Australian military travel (2004) (46)Hors de Combat: The Problems and Postures of Australian Prisoner-of-war Literature (1983) (20)Gerrymander: The Place of Suburbia in Australian Fiction (1990) (16)Capturing Japan: Australian Photography of the Postwar Military Occupation (2015) The Rise of the Prisoner-of-War Writers (1985) Travels in Atomic Sunshine (2008) (3)A Bellyful of Bali : Travel, Writing and Australia/Asia Relationships (1996) The Ned Kelly myth and Australian identity Peter Carey T (2001) The bomb in the museum: Nuclear technology and the human element (2013) (3)No man is a naked island: the Australian POW story (2005) (3)Stephen Fitzgerald: Is Australia an Asian Country? (1997) (2)Pacific Exposures: Photography and the Australia–Japan Relationship (2018) Exile on uranium street: the Australian nuclear blues (2014) (2)The past as a foreign country: nostalgia and nationalism in contemporary Japanese tourism. (2006) Down the yellowcake road: the minefield of Australian uranium (2013) A Hermeneutical Problem (1999) (2)Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia (2015) EYEWITNESS: Australians write from the Front Line (2006) (1)Six Inch Rule: Revisiting the Australian Occupation of Japan (2007) (1)Bomb sights in Japan: Photographing Australian-occupied Hiroshima (2015) (1)Hiroshima No More: Forgetting ‘the Bomb’ (2004) A Checklist of Australian Prose of the Second World War (1985) Six Inch Rule (2007) Geographies of the imagination Anita Desai Diamond Dust (2002) Occupying the Other: Australia and Military Occupations from Japan to Iraq (2009) (1)Representations of Asia (2009) Recurring images [The terrorist attacks in the US present challenges to writers as well as security strategists.] (2001) (0)Book reviews including 'A higher authority: indigenous transnationalism and Australia', by Ravi de Costa (2007) The Theoretical Tourist (1999) (0)Peter Murphy and Sophie Watson: Surface City (1997) (0)Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry [Book Review] (2007) (0)"Legends of the terrible, laughing men": the Australian literature of war (2009) (0)Taking Turkey [Istanbul.] (2002) (0)By the Time We Got to Phoenix: Report on the 1985 A. S. U. C. National Conference (1985) Hiroshima and all that: revisiting the bomb (2002) (0)How to ruin a country: the case of Togo (1989) (0)Following the Wrong God Home, Catherine Lim. Orion, London (2001), Pp 328. £ 9·99, ISBN: 0752841211 (2002) The secret annexe: an anthology of war diarists (review) (2004) (0)Celluloid Anzacs: The Great War through Australian Cinema [Book Review] (2008) (0)New Music Concert, February 20, 1973 (1973) (0)Citing Hiroshima: nuclear amnesia and atomic bomb testimony (2010) (0)War by Photography: Shooting Japanese in Australia’s Pacific War (2016) Missing the zeitgeist (2002) (0)Doomtown, Australia: nuclear apocalypse and the urban imagination (2013) Inside the Dead Heart (1999) (0)The Land of Vicaria (1999) (0)(Dis)orientating Japan: confessions of a literary traveller (2002) (0)Brian Johnston: Boxing with Shadows and Donald Denoon et al. (eds): Multicultural Japan (1997) (0)CONTACT! Cultural impacts of the Australian post-war occupation of Japan (2011) (0)On the Warpath (2004) (0)Citing Hiroshima [Japan remembers the bombing of Hiroshima but a third of the country's power is provided by nuclear reactors.] (2001) (0)"Travelling is Victory": Australian military tourism and the occupation of Japan (2009) (0)Stephen Heighton: Flight Paths of the Emperor (1997) (0)Mordecai Richler: Barney's Version (1997) (0)Fu Manchu Days (1999) (0)Marele Day: Lambs of God (1997) (0)On rereading Bean's official history (2017) (0)Take two: photography and the reconstruction of the post-war Australia/Japan relationship (2018) Memoir from a vanished Sydney (2001) (0)Touring “Vietnam”: a cultural and political map of the Australian war (2012) Coming to terms: fear, loathing, revenge & reconciliation in Australian Stories of Japanese Occupation (2005) (0)Paul Theroux: Kowloon Tong (1997) (0)The Larrikin as Australian Allegory: Louis Stone's Jonah (1997) (0)Australians in Asia: A Letter of Introduction (1997) (0)William Yang: Sadness (1997) (0)Missing the Zeitgeist. "Alanna", by Alan Saunders. [review] (2002) (0)Elizabeth Jolley: Lovesong (1997) (0)[The couple in my works]. (1987) (0)Composers' Concert, December 4, 1972 (1972) (0)Our Ground Zero: Future wars and the imagined destruction of Australia's cities (2015) (0)Hiroshima & Here: "The bomb" in the Australian imagination (2011) (0)Legless in Ginza: Orientating Japan (1999) (0)Fault Lines: Australian Inscriptions of Japan (1998) (0)Riding Santa's Surfboard: Teaching "Australia" in Japan (1997) (0)Book Reviews (2011) Ground zero rising (2005) (0)Sinfapore fling Catherine Lim Following the Wrong God Ho (2002) Homeward bound: Australian literary travels in Asia (2001) (0)Noel Rowe and Vivian Smith (eds) Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry (2007) (0)Brian Castro: Stepper (1997) (0)Asian Orientations (2013) (0)Oh Japan! Coming to terms with the bogeyman (2003) (0)Prisoners of the Japanese: Literary Imagination and the Prisoner-of-War Experience (2007) (0)Big-noting : the promotion of an heroic theme in Australian war prose (2021) Anzac, New Mexico: placing Australia in the nuclear empire (2014) (0)Daniel Reynaud, Celluloid Anzacs: The Great War through Australian Cinema, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne 2007, pp vi + 279 (2008) (0)More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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