Shadowline by Jacquie Houlden
In September 1939 Britain declared war on Germany, and the life of Uwe Radok, a young German-born engineer working in Scotland, changed forever. Classified as an 'enemy alien', Uwe was deported to Canada on the Arandora Star. When the ship was torpedoed, drowning more than 800, Uwe and his brothers survived - only to be marched onto the infamous Dunera, bound for Australia. From 1940 to 1943 Uwe kept a series of diaries. Their pages offer a remarkable account of the effects of displacement. The harrowing voyage and the tedium of indefinite detainment are rendered with clarity. Over time, this gives way to an exploration of the contours of love, as Uwe formed a sustaining connection with another male internee. Edited by Uwe's daughter Jacquie Houlden and historian Seumas Spark, the diaries offer a fascinating insight into life in wartime internment. In depicting the barriers to homosexual and bisexual love in the 1940s, they reveal a new element to the Dunera story that has gone unexplored. Vivid and poignant, Shadowline is a powerful portrait of a man torn between his feelings and society's expectations. Editor royalties from this book will be donated to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, to help protect and support those seeking asylum in Australia today.
Ceridwen Spark has held two part-time postdoctoral fellowships, one at Monash University and the other at Victoria University, in which she conducted research on cross-cultural interaction in Papua New Guinea (PNG). She gained AusAID funding for the Pawa Meri project which involves making six films about leading women in PNG. To conduct this research, Ceridwen is collaborating with the Centre for Social and Creative Media at the University of Goroka. Seumas Spark is a historian at Monash University and the author of Battlefield to Grave, a monograph based on his thesis. Christina Twomey is professor of history at Monash University and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She is the author of three books, including Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War Two, and coauthor of A History of Australia. She is currently coeditor of Australian Historical Studies.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781922633620 |
| ISBN 10 | 1922633623 |
| Titel | Shadowline |
| Autor | Jacquie Houlden |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Monash University Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2022-11-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 208 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
| Hinweis | Nicht verfügbar |