Australian Literary Studies articles from May 2002

Australian Literary Studies archives from May 2002

Editorial.
May 1, 2002... ALS has not been inclined to editorials, and that is one of many traditions that I intend to continue. That said, the retirement of Laurie Hergenhan after an astonishing 39 years of dedication and excellence demands not merely acknowledgment,...

Cultural memory in postcolonial fiction: the uses and abuses of Ned Kelly.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2002... Remembering Kelly THE story of the Irish Australian bushranger Ned Kelly has become paradigmatic for the selective retelling of history as folk legend, and for the ideological processes by which social memory may be reworked into the...

Cold War, home front: Australian women writers and artists in the 1950s: Dorothy Green Memorial Lecture Association for Australian Literature Annual Conference, Melbourne, July 2001.
May 1, 2002... DOROTHY Green, for whom this lecture is named, was a leading voice in Australian literary and cultural criticism in the 1970s, though her formative years stretch back to the late thirties and World War Two. In paying tribute to her today, I...

Criminal transport: George Barrington and the colonial cure.
May 1, 2002... GEORGE Barrington's celebrity during the 1780s and 1790s was, according to his most recent editor, `without precedent' in his time, making him `one of the eighteenth century's most talked-about lawbreakers' (Rickard 3, 4). An Irish thief of...

The tidiest revolution: regulative feminist autobiography and the de-facement of the Australian women's movement.
May 1, 2002... `The issue that concerns me now is not whether women do as a matter of course write differently but whether feminists as a matter of strategy ought to do so.' Catherine Belsey, `Writing as a Feminist' 1158 THE figuration of autobiography...

`One of them kinds of kids': the lives of Les Murray.
May 1, 2002... AS the author of three previous literary biographies: that of an over-excitable South African poet, later fascist and anti-semite; of a talented South African boy who transforms himself into a cool, homosexual, London literary man; and of an...

About face: Asian-Australians at home.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2002... `my old country' and me we see each other on tv and my future home is but a castle floating in air' Ouyang Yu, `Permanently Resident in An Alien Country' IN 1974 John Romeril's play The Floating World canvassed Australia/Japan...

The British tradition in John Morrison's radical nationalism.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2002... ALTHOUGH historians have long known the importance of the British dissenting tradition in shaping Australian radicalism, it has been less considered by literary historians and critics. Peter Pierce (1988) characterises Australian literary...

Henry Kendall's religion.
May 1, 2002... TO mark the centenary of white colonisation in Australia in 1888, Douglas B.W. Sladen was commissioned to produce A Century of Australian Song. His qualification for the task was that, after taking a degree at Oxford, he had come from England...

The artful man: theory and authority in Brian Castro's fiction.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2002... REVIEWERS have been grumbling about Brian Castro's recourse to theory ever since the French theorist Roland Barthes made a brief appearance in his first novel Birds of Passage (1982). The implications of this encounter for the `theoretically...

Theory as fireworks: an interview with Brian Castro.(Interview)
May 1, 2002... KB: I want to start by asking you to comment on your relation to literary theory. Double-Wolf's Freudian critique led both critics and reviewers to position you on the side of anti-theory, but your dealings with theory are not all critical. You...

Annual bibliography of studies in Australian literature: 2001.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2002... This is the thirty-ninth annual bibliography to be published in Australian Literary Studies. Primarily devoted to substantial commentaries useful to criticism and scholarship, the series aims to provide as complete a listing as possible of...

Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000.
May 1, 2002... edited by Delys Bird, Robert Dixon, and Christopher Lee. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2001. Paperback, $30.00. In a recent issue of the UK journal Australian Studies, David Callahan notes a shift towards foregrounding...

Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction.
May 1, 2002... Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction, by Elaine Lindsay. Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000. Paperback, US$22. Feminist Poetics of...

The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy.
May 1, 2002... by Jennifer Rutherford. South Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Softcover, $32.95. Jennifer Rutherford's The Gauche Intruder is one of the few works of Australian cultural critique to use Lacanian psychoanalysis in detail as...

Henry Handel Richardson: The Letters.
May 1, 2002... edited by Clive Probyn and Bruce Steele, with Rachel Solomon and Patrick O'Neill. 3 vols. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2000. $88 per volume. Literary embargo is one of the banes of most researchers. Who has not had a promising track of...

Books received.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2002... Antor, Heinz, and Klans Stierstorfer, eds. English Literatures in International Contexts. Heidelberg: Winter, 2000. Introductory essay on the shift from national to international followed by 29 essays by various critics including Bill Ashcroft,...