Australian literature and writers

Parses the difference between nationalism and the nation. 'To show the oppressive, homogenising and frankly racist operations of nationalism—to suggest why historically and as a…

Mary Lord interviews Hal Porter about his career, approach to writing, critical reception and literary influences.

The exotically named convict ship the 'Pestonjee Bomanjee' sailed from Plymouth on the 18 April 1852, with 291 transportees, 30 pensioners as guards 24 women…

Dorothy Green is quite right when she notes that Grant Watson's psychological and metaphysical disturbance looks forward to the novels of Patrick White, although the…

My argument is in three parts: first, about how Oscar and Lucinda seems to be signalling the need for a move away from the Church…

The complete text of Wright's satirical response to the 1890s Bulletin writers and bohemians. See Michael Sharkey, in this issue, for an introduction to the…

‘This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert…

The main concerns of this essay are the nature and intensity of the literary experience in the setting of the increasingly popular literary festivals in…

Provides a list of useful articles and books on Australian Literature published in 2008.

Discusses Winton's representations of femininity, and particularly the close relationship between self-harm and the female body. 'What is the effect of Winton—often perceived as a…

'In Australia opium smoking provoked a rhetorical nexus of intoxication, cultural division, and clamorous assertions of nationality. ... With this in mind, what I offer…

‘Patrick White’s fiction has been ambivalently received. For all its celebration, dissenters continue to insist on a gap between its reputation and its actual achievements…

Provides a list of useful articles and books on Australian Literature, and also a selection of the most important reviews and prefaces, published in 1983.

Sometime during the early 1920s, Lesbia Harford wrote The Invaluable Mystery, a novel which concerns Sally, an urban working-class woman, and her struggle to…

Since the finding of the Australian High Court in what has come to be known as the Mabo decision of January 1992, the phrase Terra…

Provides a list of useful articles and books on Australian Literature, and also a selection of the most important reviews and prefaces, published in 1994.

‘Michel Foucault defined history as ‘the discourse of power’ (Society 68), arguing that the function of a ‘counter-history’ is ‘to show that laws deceive, that…

‘In 1934 Miles Franklin described Eleanor Dark’s second novel, Prelude to Christopher, as ‘a terribly beautiful piece of work’ (128). One of Dark’s earliest…

‘This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the ‘raw nerves’ that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of ‘indifference’ that…

A number of authors of war literature were sent a questionnaire by ALS, asking them to write about why they had turned to war…