At heart, this essay attempts to render some ‘lines’ for a short story that speaks to the ‘yes, but no’ of Indigenous citizenship…
Discusses 'the long Australian tradition of literary hoaxes and imposture', and introduces this special issue of ALS on literary hoaxes and impostures. "This volume does…
The first half of this essay uses the trials to examine English discourses about Australian identity in the late nineteenth century, and it considers how…
'Pleasure in the spurious helps perpetuate it' (89), writes K.K. Ruthven, author of Faking Literature. And he is right. Indeed, the argument that Ruthven…