Departures: How Australia Reinvents Itself

A collection of essays by various Australian and European authors on a wide range of Australian cultural topics, this is a story of struggle and achievement and occasional failure. Departures deals with innovation and transgression in Australian literature and history and brings out the vitality of Australian culture as it meets new challenges.

Xavier Pons is a professor of English at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail and a past president of the European Association for Studies on Australia (EASA). He is the author of Out of Eden and A Sheltered Land and has translated three Australian novels into French. He lives in Toulouse, France.