Travel fiction & writing
Articles
- Some Recent Australian Fictions in the Age of Tourism: Murray Bail, Inez Baranay, Gerard Lee
Exile, expatriation, migration, travel: a rhetoric of restlessness has underpinned Australia's chimerical search for national selfhood. Torn between the need for definition and the desire…
1 October 1993 - Review of Prosthetic Gods: Travel, Representation and Colonial Governance, by Robert Dixon
A popular cliche in the field of postcolonial theory is the observation that the master's tools will never be able to dismantle the master's house…
1 May 2004 - Review of London Was Full of Rooms, edited by Tully Barnett, Nena Bierbaum, Syd Harrex, Rick Hosking and Graham Tulloch
In Stella Bowen's painting, 'Embankment Gardens', dark figures pace concrete walks amid extravagantly green patches of lawn. The leafless trees, the pale skies announce winter…
1 May 2007 - Unbecoming Australians : Crisis and Community in the Australian Villa/ge Book
Examines recent Australian examples of travel memoirs that 'recount the author's attempt to live the southern European dream in ways that are not available to…
1 October 2007 - Review of The Transported Imagination: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Geographical Imaginaries of Colonial Modernity, by Victoria Kuttainen, Susann Liebich and Sarah Galletly
On the cover of The Transported Imagination: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Geographical Imaginaries of Colonial Modernity fashionably dressed men and women lean against…
5 July 2019 - ‘Ourselves Alone’? Encounters Between the Irish Literary Revival and Australian Settler-Modernisms, ca. 1913–1919
This essay examines intellectual exchanges between early twentieth-century Australian literary nationalists and the Irish literary revival, with attention to the transnational and imperial differences in…
30 September 2021