Transnationalism
Articles
- Review of Caring Cultures: Sharing Imaginations: Australia and India, edited by Anuraag Sharma and Pradeep Trilrna
The reading of Australian literature from international perspectives is vital, not only for the publication and promotion of Australian literature overseas, but also for the…
1 October 2008 - Review of Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a WorldLiterature? ed. Robert Dixon and Brigid Rooney
This is a very timely book of a range of untimely meditations. We read of Nettie Palmer's early twentieth-century literary perambulations in a fishing village…
1 November 2013 - Review of Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of US Literature, by Paul Giles
Perhaps the simplest expression of the thesis of Paul Giles's Antipodean America occurs in his discussion of a poem by the American poet Louis Simpson…
1 November 2014 - Cooper, Cather, Prichard, 'Pioneer': The Chronotope of Settler Colonialism
This essay considers three novels which each bear the word ‘pioneer’ in their titles: James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers (1823), Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! (1913)…
1 June 2016 - Before the Nation: Rolf Boldrewood and the Problem of Scale in National Literatures
While Babes in the Bush is an artefact of Federation nationalism, the original serial, An Australian Squire, belongs to an earlier, pre-Federation era of…
31 October 2015 - ‘A Vermeer in the Hayloft’: Christina Stead, Unjust Neglect and Transnational Improprieties of Place and Kind
Published in New York to muted praise in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was re-issued in 1965 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston with a…
7 December 2016 - Toward Worlding Settler Texts: Tracking the Uses of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career through the Curriculum
Using Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career as its focus, this paper explores the institutional possibilities and constraints of ‘worlding’ settler texts in secondary school and…
19 September 2017 - Wenz Reinvented: The Making and Remaking of a French-Australian Transnational Writer
This paper analyses the work of Paul Wenz (1869–1939). Born in Reims, France, Wenz moved to Australia in the 1890s, settling in New South Wales…
30 April 2021 - The Commercial Function of Historical Book Reviews: An Interrogation of the Angus & Robertson Archives
Book reviews have an understudied commercial function, acting as a crucial link between publishers and the press within the interactive book trade. For most of…
30 April 2021
Contributors
- Ruth Blair
- Robert Dixon
- Natalie Edwards
- Debjani Ganguly
- Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
- Christopher Hogarth
- Michael Jacklin
- Fiona Morrison
- Susan K. Martin
- Larissa McLean Davies
- Rebekah Ward