Aboriginal Australians

Van Toorn traces the development of European book culture and indigenous communication and writing in Australia.

The article examines the use of bodily metaphors of dismemberment and beheading in Drewe’s novel about the fate of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people, The Savage…

When an Aboriginal writer appropriates western literary forms to tell stories of pre-invasion tribal heritage and culture, there is little objection from many black or…

A biography of Catherine Martin and the ways in which her works reflect the issues of her times.

Writer Carmel Bird shares her recollections of growing up in Tasmania.

Discusses Wright's 'foregrounding of whiteness as an object of critique'. 'Carpentaria breaks new ground by making whiteness one of its main subjects and by its…

Politics has been described in many ways, most of them unflattering and all of them seemingly opposed to whatever poetry may be. Politics is the…

Long before the British invaded Australia our people expressed their emotions, our history, the sacred and secular events of our lives, via the medium of…

For those of us who knew Oodgeroo well and loved her dearly our attempts to contribute to this book are difficult as we are still…

Every memory has a point of departure.

My own starting point was a Wednesday in late August, 1980 The place was Minjerriba (North Stradbroke Island)…

"White people want to do something about Aborigines, but they don't know how to go about it," said Kath Walker (Oodgeroo) to reporter Jim Hall…

Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River was met with considerable acclaim on its publication in 2005. It has also been the subject of intense scrutiny…

Interview conducted on 1-2 November 2014 in Canberra.

This biography of Marxist anthropologist and prominent Cold War figure Frederick Rose has diverse potential interest, not least because of its subject’s often surprising connections…

This article uses Lacanian psychoanalysis to look past the enormous contextual differences between the politically-motivated mass murders and consequent genocide of the Maya in Guatemala…

This article examines a range of colonial Australian Irish bushranger narratives in terms of their investments in revolutionary republicanism arguing that these become increasingly contested…

Perhaps no Australian writer or thinker has probed the condition of Irishness in Australia more extensively than the poet-critic Vincent Buckley (1925-88). His first memoir…

This article considers some of the reasons why Irish-Australian literature has not been a significant trajectory within Australian literary studies and what it might offer…

Joint Winner of the inaugural ALS PhD Essay Prize.

This essay examines the evolving discourses of settler indigenisation and Indigenous extinction in South Australia through…