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Disorienting Horizons: Encountering the Past in Chloe Hooper’s A Child’s Book of True Crime
Australian Literature A Child's Book Disorienting Horizons True Crime
2008/10/20
Chloe Hooper’s novel A Child’s Book of True Crime powerfully responds to the
expressions of non-indigenous disconcertion over the devastation caused to indigenous
people and their environments throu...
The Wood from the Trees: Taxonomy and the Eucalypt as the New National Hero in Recent Australian Writing
Australian Literature Recent Australian Writing New National Hero
2008/10/20
A number of recent successful Australian narratives have revealed a striking fixation
with trees, especially indigenous trees, and particularly the eucalypt. Most
obviously in Murray Bail’s Eucalypt...
Elizabeth Jolley, Mr Berrington and the Resistance to Monogamy
Australian Literature Elizabeth Jolley
2008/10/20
“Only connect . . .”
E. M. Forster, Howard’s End (epigraph)
To give a truthful account [. . .] is beyond the powers of the biographer
or the historian. [. . .] Fiction is truer than fact.
Virgini...
Fakes, Literary Identity and Public Culture
Australian Literature Fakes Literary Identity Public Culture
2008/10/20
The fake presupposes the genuine. The fake author implies the real author, and
fake literature presupposes real literature. But literature itself is often about—
perhaps fundamentally about—successf...
Sex, Soap and Sainthood: Beginning to Theorise Literary Celebrity
Australian Literature Sex Soap Sainthood
2008/10/20
For over two weeks now my newspaper (broadsheet, Fairfax-owned) has been carrying
daily instalments of the latest sex scandal surrounding soccer super-star David
Beckham: revelations of affairs with...
Boundary Work: Australian Literary Studies in the Field of Knowledge Production
Australian Literature Knowledge Production Boundary Work
2008/10/20
What I would insist upon is the importance of keeping in mind
when doing a local or a national case study the wider frame of
reference within which any case can be situated. [. . .] Nothing
occurs ...
Narrative Lives and Human Rights: Stolen Generation Narratives and the Ethics of Recognition
Australian Literature Narrative Lives Human Rights
2008/10/20
Dorothy Green was a formidable figure in the field of Australian literature. I first
met her twenty five years ago at a symposium in Sydney hosted by Geoffrey
Sharp, the then editor of Arena. The id...
The Not Quite Real Miles Franklin:Diaries as Performance
Australian Literature Diaries Franklin
2008/10/17
“Did she not threaten us all with her diary, to be published when
she was safely dead?”
(Marjorie Barnard qtd. in Carole Ferrier, As Good as a
Yarn with You 21)
‘False as Eden’: Constituting the Female Subject in Time
Australian Literature Female Subject False as Eden
2008/10/17
This essay examines the retrospective gaze of two Australian feminist intellectuals,
focusing on the rhetorical operations by which the personal and public lives
of women are rendered interchangeabl...
The Genesis and Commodification of Katherine Langloh Parker's Australian Legendary Tales (1896)
Australian Literature Katherine Langloh Australian Legendary Tales
2008/10/17
Katherine Langloh Parker’s Australian Legendary Tales provides a useful case study
in formulating the role of women writers in the transformation of culture as a
specific function in the expansion o...
Kim Scott’s Benang: An Ethics of Uncertainty
Australian Literature Ethics of Uncertainty Kim Scott's Benang
2008/10/17
The narrator, Harley, of Kim Scott’s novel Benang, suggests that he is writing “the
most local of histories” (10). However, he also questions what it is that he is
writing—“What was it? A family his...
’I’m Not Australian, I’m Not Greek, I’m Not Anything’: Identity and the Multicultural Nation in Christos Tsiolkas’s Loaded
Australian Literature Identity Multicultural Nation Christos Tsiolkas’s Loaded
2008/10/16
Developing out of the changing demographic composition of countries in the
twentieth century, policies of multiculturalism embody an attempt by the state
to encourage and celebrate ethno-cultural di...
Writing the’Fatal Moment’Crisis, Community and the Literary Imagination in M. Barnard Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Australian Literature Literary Imagination Tomorrow
2008/10/16
M. Barnard Eldershaw’s novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was written
during and just after World War II. This was a fraught period for Australia’s writers.
People questioned what role the w...
Norman Lindsay’s The Cousin from Fiji and the Lindsay Family Papers
Australian Literature Lindsay Family Papers
2008/10/16
On 5 October 1945, Robert Lindsay, a retired gentleman of Creswick, wrote to
his brother Norman:
I really started out to say how we both enjoyed your last book, and
have had many enquiries by the c...
Landscapes of Australian Childhoods: A Regional Comparison of Edenic Imaginings
Australian Literature Australian Childhoods Edenic Imaginings
2008/10/16
Like writers from overseas, Australian authors commonly invoke the mythology of
Eden in narratives about childhood. Childhood is typically viewed as a time of
blissful innocence where the infant pos...