Language & identity
Articles
- ‘His Grief Is the Plague’ Poetry of Loss and the Risk of Losing One’s Readers
This article discusses the book *Lalomanu*, a selection of poetry by Spanish-Australian writer, Jorge Salavert, written in response to the death of his daughter Clea…
1 November 2013 - Coetzee and Wicomb: Writers Giving an Account of Themselves in Age of Iron and October
J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and Zoë Wicomb’s October feature female writers who are also academics giving an account of themselves through an autobiographical…
25 February 2018 - ‘A dozen rich and luscious phrases’: Speech as characterisation of the working-class women in Ruth Park’s The Harp in the South
As Delie Stock clashes with Father Cooley over the St Brandan’s school picnic in Ruth Park’s debut novel The Harp in the South (1948), she…
3 October 2024