| Description |
269 pages ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Keynote address: Literary subjectivity / Simon During -- King Kong and Kung Fu: Asian and American images in Georgia Savage's Gold Coast novels / David Mescher -- Someone else's zoo: Asian Australian women's writing / Tseen Ling Khoo -- Liars vs the new diversity: is there an alternative to 'Postmodernist' literary studies / Cameron Richards -- 'Gold out of straw': an introduction to the life and work of Amy Witting / Yvonne Miels -- Beyond the verandah: Elizabeth Jolley's The Orchard thieves and Drusilla Modjeska's The Orchard / Tanya Dalziell -- My life as a joke: comic Australian autobiography / David McCooey -- Telling shameful stories: autobiography as history / Rosamund Dalziell -- Mabel Forrest and the witch / Marie-Louise Ayres -- The fruit and the verandah / Carmel Gaffney -- Rethinking poetry and the popular, or, How to resuscitate an immoral piece of poultry / Peter Kirkpatrick -- Between two deaths: The love Poetry of Gwen Harwood / Susan Schwartz -- The Postcolonial ghost story / Ken Gelder and Jane M. Jacobs -- "Delirious monologues": Christina Stead's "egotistical monsters" / Maria Sloggett -- She casts herself as a revolutionary: performance and performability in The Man who loved children / Brigid Rooney -- Babylon or Jerusalem?: an inversion of terms / Elisa Morera de la Vall -- The Aboriginal fiction maker and the white fiction maker: the variant perceptual cognitions / Dr S.K. Sareen -- Bony as grotesque: the dilemma of national identity in Arthur Upfield's Bony series, 1930-1850 / Glen Ross -- Sounding out of history: Landscape and exploration in recent Australian history / Gillian Tyas -- An un-becoming paradise: the Yandilli trilogy / Greg Ratcliffe -- Good writing: the ethics and aesthetics of fiction / Patricia Kalnins -- Collision courses: Feminism, Postcolonialism and The Monkey's mask / Margaret Henderson -- A rose is a ...: maternal debt in Ania Walwicz's Red roses / Alison Bartlett -- Colour and line to word: the writing of Janine Burke / Roberta Buffi -- The search for agency in the fiction of Janette Turner Hospital / Sue Lovell -- Postmodernism, history and satire: Salman Rushdie and David Foster / Susan Lever -- The ethical vision of Gerald Murnane / Patrick West -- The milk of mother's kindness in Brian Castro's Drift / Karen Barker -- "A mob of bloody women": utopia, collectivity and multiplicity in some recent fiction by Australian women / Eleanor Hogan -- Aussie rules: writing and social practice in a regional community / Jen Webb -- "Threatened people don't breed": the maternal strike in Australian women's writing 1920s to 1950 / Nicole Moore -- In search of the colonial "Australian playwright" / Veronica Kelly |
| Notes |
"With the assistance of the Faculty of Arts School of Humanities and School of Media and Journalism, Queensland University of Technology" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Donation |
| Subject |
Australian literature -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Neilsen, Philip, 1949-
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Pearce, Sharyn.
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Queensland University of Technology.
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