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- Two Answers to Every Question: Elizabeth Jolley’s Fiction, Ethics and Criticism
Argues that close examination of her fictions shows 'Jolley continually intervening not to provide neat judgements and solutions, but to set up several opposing ethical…
1 May 1995 - Indigenous Sovereignty and the Crisis of Whiteness in Alexis Wright’s Carpenteria
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…
1 November 2010 - What Falls from View? On Re-Reading Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise
‘Reading is a visual practice. It always involves a scene. What scenes do white readers of Plains of Promise gaze upon as they hold its…
1 November 2010 - Reading the Signs of Michael Wilding’s ‘Knock, Knock’
Michael Wilding's Reading the Signs (1984) is a rich and varied collection of stories. Thematically, it counterpoints 'accounts of a divided Old World' (Clunies Ross…
1 June 1991