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Cultural Studies

Demanding the Impossible: Seven Essays on Resistance by Sylvia Lawson

by Judith Armstrong
May 2012, no. 341

Demanding the Impossible: Seven Essays on Resistance by Sylvia Lawson

Melbourne University Publishing, $32.99 pb, 192 pp, 9780522854855

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Sylvia Lawson is an award-winning and highly respected essayist and film critic. Her subject matter, though generally Australian, is also concerned with our nearer neighbours and with the culture and politics of the world beyond. The theme of this new collection is resistance to oppression in seven parts of the world.

 


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Demanding the Impossible: Seven Essays on Resistance by Sylvia Lawson

Melbourne University Publishing, $32.99 pb, 192 pp, 9780522854855

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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