Abstract
Described as “the platypus of prose”, crónicas are a genre that combines journalistic reporting, social commentary, humour and fiction. In his chapter, Jacklin surveys the scholarship focusing on this phenomenon of the Latin American press and then turns to examine crónicas in the Australian newspaper El Expreso, published for only a few months in 1979. Though short-lived, El Expreso offered an alternative to Australia’s existing Spanish-language press. Its inclusion of Luis Abarca’s Crónicas de un Blady Woggie, along with cronicas by Uruguayan-born Alberto Domínguez, and those by UK-born academic John Brotherton marked the newspaper as radical. A focus on these crónicas provides opportunity to investigate the role of this unique genre in the migrant press, and its contribution to the negotiation of Spanish-language Australian identities.
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This chapter is part of the ARC Discovery project “New Transnationalisms: Australia’s Multilingual Literary Heritage”. The author wishes to thank the Australia Research Council and the University of Wollongong for financial assistance.
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Jacklin, M. (2020). Crónicas in Australia’s Spanish-Language Press: The Case of El Expreso. In: Dewhirst, C., Scully, R. (eds) The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43639-1_9
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