Nostalgia in the Global City: Recuperating the Battler in the Sydney Production of Cloudstreet

Authors

  • Tom Burvill Macquarie University

Keywords:

Cloudstreet, Tim Winton, Neil Armfield, theatre

Abstract

The article speculates towards reading the total 'event' of the theatrical version of Cloudstreet, including the adaptation of the novel and the critical and popular reception of the play--as a symptomatic Australian cultural text.

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Published

2013-02-03

Issue

1999: Australian Writing and the City

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Nostalgia in the Global City: Recuperating the Battler in the Sydney Production of Cloudstreet. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 157-164. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9582