History
Articles
- When ‘History Changes Who We Were’
Review essay on Searching for the Secret River, by Kate Grenville, Agamemnon's Kiss: Selected Essays, by Inga Clendinnen, The History Question: Who Owns…
1 November 2008 - Counter-Poetics
‘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…
1 June 2011 - Theory as Fireworks: An Interview with Brian Castro
Castro discusses the relationship of his work to literary theory, questions of authorship, style and genre, and the purpose of literature.
1 May 2002 - Bibliographic Notes on Selected Irish-Australian Writers
This essay surveys the viewpoints of selected Irish-Australian writers: the anthologists Bill Wannan, Vincent Woods and Colleen Burke then Bernard O’Dowd, Brian Elliott, Tom Inglis…
30 September 2021 - Vincent Buckley, Colonialism and the Problem of Irish-Australian Identity
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…
30 September 2021