Crosscultural relations
Articles
- Review of Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia by Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo, and Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre by Joanne Tompkins
The recently instigated series 'Studies in International Performance' from Palgrave Macmillan is currently providing some of the most interesting, thought provoking, and indeed necessary research…
1 October 2008 - 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 Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Writings of Thomas King and Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo), by Clare Archer-Lean
Clare Archer-Lean's contemplative, border-crossing study draws on a range of theoretical sources—postcolonial and postmodern in particular—to undertake a comparative analysis of the fiction of native…
1 October 2006 - Gender and Race Relations in Elizabeth O’Conner’s Northern Homesteads
This article examines Elizabeth O’Conner’s seven books, published between 1958 and 1980, as works which functioned ideologically to implement a desire in post-World War II…
1 May 2003 - Review of Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the Colonial 'Self,' Mapping the Indigenous 'Other' in the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand, edited by Franrçoise Kral
This little yellow publication looks like a relic from another age. The collection seems to belong in the eighties. Of course conference proceedings are a…
1 May 2006 - ‘…The Wild Assertion of Vitality’
Kris Hemensley describes his career, approach to poetry, and relationship to broader international and national poetic movements. The piece also provides insight into the 'new'…
1 October 1977 - White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret
‘This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the ‘raw nerves’ that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of ‘indifference’ that…
1 June 2011 - Worlds Apart? Finnish Translations of Australian Literature
This paper will examine cultural relations through fiction and translations of fiction. More specifically it will discuss Finnish translations of Australian fiction and the role…
1 October 1995 - Review of Ways of Seeing China: From Yellow Peril to Shangrila, by Timothy Kendall
'If you dig a hole right through the middle of the earth and out the other side, you will come up in China.' A promise…
1 May 2007 - Jimmy Governor and Jimmie Blacksmith
Historian Henry Reynolds examines the historical background of and model for Keneally’s novel and focuses on four things: “to outline the general background to race…
1 May 1979 - Establishing an Australian/Caribbean Alliance: Stories Passed on by Penny van Toorn and Olive Senior
Brings the work of Caribbean poet and Australian scholar Penny van Toorn into conversation. 'Given van Toom's emphasis on the tactics of Indigenous engagement with…
1 November 2010 - About Face: Asian-Australians at Home
An overview of recent poetry and prose of Asian-Australian writers as they perform an artistic ‘about-face’ to reflect on racialised depictions of minority ethnicities.
1 May 2002 - Heterotopias: Writing and Location
As a fiction writer I have a rather privileged role, in that when I'm required to give a paper or deliver a speech it is…
1 October 1995 - Review of Austral-Asian Encounters: From Literature and Women 's Studies to Politics and Tourism, edited by Cynthia vanden Driesen and Satendra Nandan
Austral-Asian Encounters is a collection of papers presented at the Second International Asian-Australasian Association for the Study of Australasia (AASA, formerly The Asian Association for…
1 October 2005 - Oodgeroo in China
Oodgeroo, or Kath Walker, as she then was, visited China from 12 September to 3 October 1984 in a delegation comprising Caroline Turner (as leader)…
1 November 1994
Contributors
- Maureen Clark
- Anne Collett
- Brian Castro
- Kris Hemensley
- Michael Jacklin
- Lyn Jacobs
- Nicholas Jose
- Eugene McNulty
- Wenche Ommundsen
- Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
- Henry Reynolds
- Cheryl Taylor
- Shirley Tucker
- Eija Ventola
- Lydia Wevers