Postcolonial literature & writers

The essay examines and extends upon the trope of the borderlands as a conceptual geography employed by postcolonial theory, concentrating on the recent fiction of…

Focusing on Carey’s and Drewe’s representations of the Ned Kelly legend, the article explores the issues of memory, cultural myths and postcolonial fiction. Huggan argues…

One of the noticeable things about this volume is its place of publication. Australian publishers seem increasingly to be leaving it to elsewhere, Germany in…

The article discusses the polarised response to Wright’s work. The author argues that it is Wright’s ‘blend of realism and the visionary that marks the…

Cultural Translation and Postcolonial Poetry is one of only a handful of publications that deliberately engage with contemporary poetry within the framework of postcolonial studies…

Australian literature has been more diligent in literally metaphorically and self-consciously mapping the continent than almost any other old or emerging national literature. There seems…

Greek myth relates how Pegasus, immediately after its birth, flew to Mount Helicon, where the stamping of its hoofs caused the Hippocrene Spring, the source…

Poetry taken as a highly personal, imaginative emotionally experimental but epistemologically unprotected mode of utterance is able to indicate processes of intellectual orientation which precede…

For an outsider who began to familiarise himself with the literature from Australia and the concomitant critical debate on its history, its nature and status…