This edited collection invites the reader to enter the diverse worlds of Australia’s migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day. With a focus on the rare, radical and foreign-language print culture of multiple and frequently concurrent minority groups’ newspaper ventures, this volume has two overarching aims: firstly to demonstrate how the local experiences and narratives of such communities are always forged and negotiated within a context of globalising forces – the global within the local; and secondly to enrich an understanding of the complexity of Australian ‘voices’ through this medium not only as a means for appreciating how the cultural heritage of such communities were sustained, but also for exploring their contributions to the wider society.
Author(s): Catherine Dewhirst, Richard Scully
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 257
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Australia’s Minority Community Printed Press History in Global Context: An Introduction
Chapter 2: The Satirical Press of Colonial Australia: A Migrant and Minority Enterprise
Imperial and Inter-Colonial Connectedness
Staffing Migrant Magazines
Addressing Emigrant Concerns
Conclusion
Chapter 3: “Cement, Guide and Representative for the Exile and the Emigrant”: Ideological Discourse and italianità in L’Italo-Australiano
Between Italy and Sydney: The Socio-Cultural and Political Context of Migration
L’Italo-Australiano: Producers, Project, and Programmatic Ideas
Imagining an Italian Community: Ideological Discourse and italianità
Chapter 4: Australia’s Early Russian-Language Press (1912–1919)
First Steps: Artem and His Allies, 1912–1917
The Press and Revolution: Simonoff, Zuzenko, Klushin, 1917–1918
Last Gasp: Zuzenko, Bykoff, 1919
Chapter 5: Respectability and Disloyalty: The Competing Obligations of L’Italiano’s Editors
Compromising Community Interests
L’Italiano’s Anti-Fascist Reputation
Fascist Influence over Business Competition
Chapter 6: Zionism, Assimilationism and Antifascism: Divergent International Jewish Pathways in Three Post-War Australian Jewish Magazines
The Revolt Against Assimilation
“For God, for King and for Country”: The Assimilationist Backlash
An “Internationally Distributed People”: Jewish Antifascism’s Third Option
Chapter 7: Literary Ambitions: The Polish-Language Press in Australia
Introduction
Created “by fine wits for connoisseurs of various sorts”
Promoting Polish-language arts
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Exploring the Migrant Experience Through an Examination of Letters to The New Australian
A Newspaper for Newcomers: The New Australian
Reunification of Families
Problems: General and Personal
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Crónicas in Australia’s Spanish-Language Press: The Case of El Expreso
The Australian Spanish-Language Press and Crónicas
El Expreso and a Flourishing of Australian Crónicas
Chapter 10: News Reporting of Italian Organised Crime in Australia: Examining Il Globo’s Editorial Commentary
So difficult to separate: the immigration-criminality nexus
Italian Organised Crime: Il Globo’s Editorial Commentary
“To defame the Italians with the myth of the Mafia in Australia is also racism”
Chapter 11: A Treasure Trove of Community Language Newspapers
Migrant Community Australian Newspapers
Collaborative Enrichment of Content
Bibliography
Primary
1. Archives and Manuscripts
Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Brisbane
National Archives Australia, Canberra
National Library of Australia
Queensland State Archives, Brisbane
State Library of New South Wales, Suzanne Rutland collection, Sydney
2. Newspapers and Periodicals
Secondary
1. Books
2. Articles and Chapters
3. Theses
4. Websites
Index
