The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press (eBook)

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.

Catherine Dewhirst is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, where she teaches European, global and women's histories, and historiography. Her research focuses on Italian migrant communities and newspapers from Italian imperialism to the Second World War.