Imposture
Articles
- On Not Being Australian: Mudrooroo and Demidenko
Discusses how the cases of Colin Johnson/Mudrooroo and Helen Darville/Demidenko complicate and reveal fractures in 'Australian' identity. 'By not being [the hegemonic] Australian, Mudrooroo and…
1 October 2004 - In His Own Sweet Time: Carmen’s Coming Out
Discusses Wandra Koolmatrie's autobiography, My Own Sweet Time (1994), later revealed as a fiction written by Leon Carmen. 'In this paper, I want to map…
1 October 2004 - The Company She Keeps: Demidenko and Imposture in Autobiography
To combine imposture with autobiography is surely to create an oxymoron. Despite the extravagantly creative strategies that some autobiographers have used (famously, Gertrude Stein writing…
1 October 2004 - ‘The Slaughterman of Wagga Wagga’: Imposture, National Identity, and the Tichborne Affair
The first half of this essay uses the trials to examine English discourses about Australian identity in the late nineteenth century, and it considers how…
1 October 2004 - Who’s Who?: Mapping Hoaxes and Impostures in Australian Literary History
Discusses 'the long Australian tradition of literary hoaxes and imposture', and introduces this special issue of ALS on literary hoaxes and impostures. "This volume does…
1 October 2004 - Tainted Testimony : The Khouri Affair
"we might read Forbidden Love in terms of a set of conditions that have allowed stories of abuse, trauma and exploitation to drive the memoir…
1 October 2004 - Helping Yourself: Marlo Morgan and the Fabrication of Indigenous Wisdom
IN my role as a teacher of Australian literature and Australian studies in an Australian university, I find my classes regularly contain a significant number…
1 October 2004 - Mudrooroo: Crafty Imposter or Rebel with a Cause
Hillel Schwartz defines imposture as 'the compulsive assumption of invented lives' and impersonation as 'the concerted assumption of another's public identity' (72). This is not…
1 October 2004 - Demidenko/Darville: A Ukrainian-Australian Point of View
The Demidenko/Darville affair was a difficult episode in the cultural life of Australia. News of the young writer's identity fraud hit front pages of newspapers…
1 October 2004 - O’Grady, John see ‘Culotta, Nino’: Popular Authorship, Duplicity and Celebrity
Considers the 'textual and institutional gestures' set in train by John O'Grady's Nino Culotta hoax. 'The point of this essay is neither to condemn the…
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Contributors
- Maureen Clark
- David Carter
- Carrie Dawson
- Carrie Dawson
- Susanna Egan
- Cath Ellis
- Terry Goldie
- Sonia Mycak
- Maggie Nolan
- Maggie Nolan
- Gillian Whitlock