Race and the Modern Exotic

Three 'Australian' Women on Global Display

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by Angela Woollacott

Type

Stories

Subject

Actress > Annette Kellerman, Merle Oberon

Keywords

Annette Kellerman, Merle Oberon, Australia

Publishing date

2011

Publisher

Monash University Publishing

Collection

Monash Studies in Australian Society

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 200 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-9218671-2-5

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Book Presentation:
Annette Kellerman, Rose Quong and Merle Oberon were internationally successful 'Australian' performers of the first half of the twentieth century. Kellerman was a swimmer, diver, lecturer and silent-film star; Quong was an actor, lecturer and writer who forged a career in London and New York; and Oberon was one of the most celebrated film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, first in London and then Hollywood. Race and the Modern Exotic explores the lives of these three women and makes contemprary connections between race, exoticism and gender on the global stage and screen.

About the Author:
Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History, and Head of the School of History, at the Australian National University. She works in the fields of Australian history, British Empire history, and feminist and postcolonial history. Her books include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (2001); and Gender and Empire (2006).

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