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Traditions and Transitions folk narrative in the contemporary world
16-20 July 2001   The University of Melbourne, Australia

13th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research

Presentation Abstracts

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Australia

Author Title
ANDERSON, Hugh Simon McDonald: a singer and his songs
BEGGS-SUNTER, Anne Interpreting the Eureka Legend in 2001
BURRIDGE, Kate and BUTLER, Susan Australian English as an Icon of Australian Culture
CAMERON, Rachael The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: counter-memory, sacrifice and culture
CITRANINGTYAS, Clara Evi Indonesian Curse Folktales, Their Aspects and Function in Indonesian Modern Life
DARIAN-SMITH, Kate and WILLS, Sara Beauty Contest for British Bulldogs: recreating 'Britishness' in Frankston
FALK, Cathy How and Why the Hmong Sing to their Dead
FANANY, Ismet Ranah Minang: the changing conception of a traditional Minangkabau Homeland
FANANY, Rebecca Folklore as an Expression of Cultural Identity in West Sumatra, Indonesia
GALLIGAN, Brian see ROBERTS, Winsome Reading the People's Stories: how local tales of trial and toil helped constitute Australia's Federal Republic
JOHNSTON, Chris and BUCKLEY, Kristal Telling Tales: place, attachment and government action
KING, Virginia, CARTER, Bob, BRIMBLECOMBE, Lorraine and TURVEY, Sandra The First Peoples' Project
KOK, Hu Jin The Maiden in the Moon and Other Tales as Remembered and Used by Nineteenth-century Chinese Miners in Australia
McCALLUM, Robyn Adapting the Selkie Story in Literature and Film
McCUBBIN, Maryanne Memorialising the Pioneers: monuments and generational history in Melbourne, 1880s - 1910s
McFADZEAN, Moya The Glory Box: the object of memory
McKENRY, Keith The Parodying of the National Verse: an Australian folk craft
McLAREN, Anne Women's Ritual Laments in Nanhui, China
MERRICK, Helen 'We was cross-dressing 'afore you were born!' - or how SF fans invented virtual community
MORAVEC, Mark Strange Illuminations: 'Min Min Lights' - Australian 'Ghost Light' narratives
MYCAK, Sonia A Discovered History: 'New Australian' writing as a folk narrative in the contemporary world
NICOLACOPOULOS, Toula and VASSILACOPOULOS, George Struggles to Belong: Greek migrants of the 1950s and 1960s
OLIVER, Pam Who is 'one of us'?: (re) discovering the inside-out of Australia's Japanese immigrant communities, 1901-1957
PURI, Kamal Legal Protection for Indigenous Folk Narrative Culture
ROBERTS, Winsome and GALLIGAN, Brian Reading the People's Stories: how local tales of trial and toil helped constitute Australia's Federal Republic
SABATINO, Noriko The ‘Cloud of Unknowing’: memory, myth and narratives of transition of Japanese war brides in Australia
SEAL, Graham Narrating Nation: Ned Kelly and the ambivalence of folk heroism
SIRCAR, Sanjay When Kheer Turns to Cheese: Abanindranath Tagore's Kheer-er Putul (1896) between Bengal and France and Sweden
STEPHENS, John Monstrous Father, Damaged Daughter: from ‘donkey skin’ to ‘deerskin’
STEVENSON, Mark Phantom Anthropology, or When Worlds Come Together
THIELE, Frances The Language of Prophecy: an exploration of the dissemination and cultural dispersal of non-scriptural prophecies in sixteenth-century England
TURNER, Felicity Tale-Tellers of the Future: narrative and historical consciousness in the work of Patrick Chamoiseau and Edwidge Danticat
VASSILACOPOULOS , George and NICOLACOPOULOS, Toula Doubly Outsiders: pre-war Greek-Australian migrants and their socialist ideal
WILLIAMS, Paul Inventing Maori: the cultural politics of indigenous tradition in New Zealand
WILLS, Sara see DARIAN-SMITH, Kate Beauty Contest for British Bulldogs: recreating 'Britishness' in Frankston
WINTER, Joanne The Discursive Construction of an 'Irish' Matriarch in the Talk of Three Generations of Family
WU, Cuncun Moral Edification or Sexual Exploitation?: an analysis of didactic censoriousness in late Ming popular erotic fiction
YORK, Barry The Australian National Library and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia