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Sneaky Little Revolutions
Selected essays of Charmian Clift
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About this book
'I know it's a daring suggestion, but I'll make it anyway.' Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly wove the personal and the political. In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years in the cosmopolitan community of artists on the Greek island of Hydra. Back in Sydney, Clift found her opinions were far more progressive than those of many of her fellow Australians. This new edition of Charmian Clift's essays, selected and introduced by her biographer Nadia Wheatley, is drawn from the weekly newspaper column Clift wrote through the turbulent and transformative years of the 1960s. In these 'sneaky little revolutions,' as Clift once called them, she supported the rights of women and migrants, called for social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, opposed conscription and the war in Vietnam, acknowledged Australia's role in the Asia-Pacific, fought censorship, called for an Australian film industry—and much more. In doing so, she set a new benchmark for the form of the essay in Australian literature.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- introduction
- editor’s note
- coming home
- social drinking
- second class citizens
- youth revisited
- on debits and credits
- on painting bricks white
- on lucky dips
- christmas
- the joys of a city
- the sounds of summer
- the law of the stranger
- the rare art of inspiring others
- an exile’s return
- a death in the family
- things that go boomp in the night
- a birthday in the kelly country
- on letting asia in
- on living for love alone
- getting with the forward-lookers
- living in a neighbourhood
- on waiting for things to turn up
- on being unable to write an article
- news of earls court – fifteen years ago
- saturnalias, resolutions and other christmas wishes
- on being a home-grown migrant
- on a lowering sky in the east
- on being middle-aged
- taking the wrong road
- the show behind the show
- banners, causes and convictions
- the magic of mornings
- on turning slightly sepia
- read any good books lately?
- the jungle at the bottom of the street
- the right of dissent
- goodbye to a skyline
- where my caravan has rested
- other people’s houses
- a room of one’s own
- report from a migrant, three years after
- on trouble in lotus land
- uncrating mr nolan
- the centre
- the rock
- the olgas
- the gulf
- karumba observed
- the island
- the outer limits
- the hippy warriors
- the great south land
- on coming home
- on england, my england
- the voices of greece
- what are you doing it for?
- long live democracy!
- the borrowers
- a matter of conscience
- the habitual way
- on being a culture vulture
- a new generation of protestants
- betrothing a daughter
- a portrait of my mother
- on not answering letters
- bewildered on the bourse
- death by misadventure
- a pride of lions?
- i shall not want
- the rule of the olds
- on being alone with oneself
- last of the old?
- on flying the coop
- on tick and tock
- the loftiest form of springtime
- hallelujah for a good pick-up!
- the joys of holidays
- royal jelly?
- on clean straw for nothing
- anyone for fish and chips?
- winter solstice
- publication dates and sources
- notes