SSR 1 Braith Lane - The Modern Exotic: Three 'Australian' Women on Global Display

 

 Secondary Source Report Race and The Modern Exotic: Three 'Australian' Women on Global Display

By Braith Lane

Complete citation: Waterhouse, Richard. "Angela Woollacott. Race and the Modern Exotic: Three 'Australian' Women on Global Display." Biography, vol. 35, no. 2, 2012, p. 387+. Gale Academic OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A306971019/AONE?u=james_cook&sid=AONE&xid=1f09f363.  Accessed 4 Oct. 2020Angela

 

If web access: url; https://www.booktopia.com.au/race-and-the-modern-exotic-angela-woollacott/book/9781921867125.html  date accessed: 04/10/2020

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Key Words:

Australian women, Race, Sexism, Femininity and transnational identity. Popular culture

Brief Overview:

The book three separate lives of women performers, who were conceived in Australia. However, in one case, this was untrue. There is a comparison of experienced and places them within wider contexts relating to races. Opening deeper understanding of context and concepts in international popular culture.

Summary of key points:

-        Culture impact on experiences

-        Portrays sexism and racism, and how they are shown throughout Australia in profession.

-        Portrays men as misogynistic

-        Highlights three main characters and how the impact of popular culture ahs had an affect on them. 

Important Quotations:

-        “Annette Kellerman, long distance swimmer and aquatic performer in vaudeville and film; Rose Quong, sometime actor and successful lecturer who interpreted China to the West; and Merle Oberon, a famous film star in the United Kingdom and subsequently in Hollywood.”

-        “Australia in the interwar period, serious high drama was left to the amateur repertory companies..”

-        “he claimed to have been born and raised in Tasmania, but that was to disguise the fact that she was the daughter of an Anglo-Indian girl”

-        “ For her whole career Oberon lived in fear that her "mixed race" origins would be revealed, and occasionally the press, both in Australia and the United States.”

 

Usefulness to our group topic or individual project:

 This book is useful to our group topic and individual project as it outlines and portrays multiple and different backgrounds/perspectives. Thus, allowing us to empathize on not just one, but 3 different popular cultures (America, Australia and England), and what type of affects are brought to people due yo their ethnicity in different cultures and countries. Answering answers such as, how do different countries resolve, react to racism? How do other countries show racism?