Australian Literary Studies articles from October 1999

Australian Literary Studies archives from October 1999

New Directions: Introduction.
October 1, 1999... THE publication of two essays on `the state of the discipline' (to borrow a title from the ADE Bulletin) is not a response to or an expression of millenial anxiety -- but may be a marker of a kind of disciplinary anxiety. These essays, by David...

Good Readers and Good Citizens: Literature, Media and the Nation.
October 1, 1999... I IN recent decades nationalism has sometimes been classed in the same category of immoral behaviours as racism and sexism. Reading from the historical and literary record, nationalism often appears to have been little other than racism...

Australian Literature: Points for Departure.
October 1, 1999... Southern Comfort IN the conclusion to her germinal study of sex, race and nation in Australian women's writing, Along the Faultines (1995), Susan Sheridan questions the prevalent orientations of Australian and literary cultural studies. In...

Veronica Brady's Biography of Judith Wright.
October 1, 1999... LITERARY biography has both its friends and its enemies. Readers of the genre may be fans of particular authors, or may be addicted to literary biography in general, or perhaps both. The evidence of literary festivals and public libraries is...

`Years Later': Temporality and Closure in Peter Carey's Novels.
October 1, 1999... PETER Carey's novels are usually treated as works of postmodern fiction. This is obviously appropriate, but it can also be limiting. A.J. Hassall makes an important point when he reminds us that, in spite of playing postmodern games with the...

The Fiction of Gabrielle Lord.
October 1, 1999... Gabrielle Lord was born in Sydney in 1946 and educated at the Sacre Coeur Convent, Rose Bay, and then the University of New England. She has worked in many jobs, as a teacher, fruit picker and for eight years as an employment officer with the...

An Interview with Gabrielle Lord.(Interview)
October 1, 1999... PP: To begin with first things, why did you start to write fiction? GL: I'm not sure why I started writing fiction. When I was about twenty I picked up a Gertrude Stein biography on a remainder table and read the sentence `I decided when I...

Racism, the Realist Writers' Movement and the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award.
October 1, 1999... IN their works on literary politics in postwar Australia, Susan McKernan (later Lever) and John McLaren mention the comparatively little known role played by the Realist Writers' movement and its journal Realist Writer (later The Realist).(1)...

A Note on Mary Gilmore's Uruguayan Anthology.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... IN an earlier article on Gilmore's translations from the Spanish (ALS 18.2, 1997), I wrote that we lacked a title for the avowed source of many of the Latin American poems, the anthology she cited in the Worker as having been sent to her by the...

The Oxford Literary History of Australia.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Oxford Literary History of Australia, edited by Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss. Associate editor Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hardback, $49.95. Reviewing The Oxford Literary History of Australia is...

The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety, by Peter Pierce. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Hardback $54.95, Paperback, $19.95. This is a book I was eager to read. I have long been an admirer of Peter Pierce's...

The Space Between: Australian Women Writing Fictocriticism.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Space Between: Australian Women Writing Fictocriticism, edited by Heather Kerr and Amanda Nettelbeck. Nedlands, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 1998. Paperback, $29.95. One of the first collections of its kind, The Space...

Jamming the Machinery: Contemporary Australian Women's Writing.
October 1, 1999... Jamming the Machinery: Contemporary Australian Women's Writing, by Alison Bartlett. ASAL Literary Studies Series. Toowoomba, Qld: Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1998. Paperback, $29.95. One of the first collections of...

Australian Literary Manuscripts in North American Libraries: A Guide.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Australian Literary Manuscripts in North American Libraries: A Guide, by Nan Bowman Albinski. Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, ADFA and the National Library of Australia, 1997. Paperback, $40.00. Nan Albinski's Guide is an important...

Australian Autobiographical Narratives: An Annotated Bibliography.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Australian Autobiographical Narratives: An Annotated Bibliography. Vol 2:1850-1900, by Kay Walsh and Joy Hooton. Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, ADFA and the National Library of Australia, 1998. Paperback, $40.00. Nan Albinski's...

Black Australian Literature: A Bibliography of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Oral Traditions and Non-Fiction, Including Critical Commentary, 1900-91.
October 1, 1999... Black Australian Literature: A Bibliography of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Oral Traditions and Non-Fiction, Including Critical Commentary, 1900-91, by Heinz Schurmann-Zeggel. Peter Lang, 1997. Paperback, US$50.95. Nan Albinski's Guide is an...

Xavier Herbert: A Biography.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Xavier Herbert: A Biography, by Frances De Groen. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1998. Hardback, $39.95. Biographies of writers have maintained their popularity for many years, both here and overseas, a fact sometimes...

Eleanor Dark: A Writer's Life.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Eleanor Dark: A Writer's Life, by Barbara Brooks, with Judith Clark. Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 1998. Paperback, $39.95. Biographies of writers have maintained their popularity for many years, both here and overseas, a fact sometimes attributed...

The Queen of Bohemia: The Autobiography of Dulcie Deamer: Being `The Golden Decade'.
October 1, 1999... The Queen of Bohemia: The Autobiography of Dulcie Deamer: Being `The Golden Decade', edited with an introduction by Peter Kirkpatrick. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1998. Paperback, $29.95. Biographies of writers have...

REPRINTS.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... The following is a checklist of recent reprints which are parts of different series. As the article by Michael Wilding, and my review of the Academy Texts series, in the previous issue of ALS pointed out, reprints of Australian books, even...